From 2024 to 2025: Insights, Lessons, and What’s Next
The end of 2024 is nearly here! It’s the time to pause, take a break and recharge. But also a moment to reflect and set intentions for the year ahead.
Whether you’re celebrating with loved ones or enjoying some well-deserved quiet time, I hope you take a moment to appreciate even a small win you’ve accomplished this year.
As we wrap up, I’d like to share some reflections and highlights from this year’s journey with Lean Product Growth and thoughts about the road ahead.
Happy Holidays!
Bi-Weekly Rhythm
This year, I’ve published 21 posts and managed to maintain a bi-weekly schedule for the past months.
If you’ve embarked on a similar writing journey, you’d know that keeping the continuity is not always easy. It’s not a one-off task you do when you get a burst of ideas and motivation. It requires a process in place to ensure a continuous flow that requires discipline and inspiration.
In 2025, I plan to keep up this bi-weekly tempo. That said, my focus will always be on quality over quantity. I’d rather aim to bring valuable ideas than increasing the number of articles.
Topics That Sparked Conversations
Technology and product leadership is at the heart of what I do—particularly the unique challenges that come with scaling tech organizations.
This year, we explored some of the key questions in this space. From authentic leadership to engineering challenges or the complexity of building and scaling teams.
Here are some of your favourite posts:
Metric Overload: When Too Much Data Becomes a Problem
A look at how too many metrics can paralyze decision-making and dilute focus. This post explores strategies for identifying and implementing essential, effective metrics that streamline decision-making and drive better outcomes.How to Create an Effective Product Roadmap
This guide outlines the key components of an effective product roadmap that aligns with business objectives. Packed with practical tips, it helps you communicate priorities clearly and keep your teams focused on delivering value.
Is a Fractional Chief Product Officer Role Right for You? - with John Zilch (Part 2)
In this engaging follow-up interview, John Zilch shares valuable insights into the role of a Fractional CPO. He discusses the growing trend of fractional leadership, benefits and challenges of having this role, and when it might be the right choice for an organization.
How to Scale a Product Company: Leaders’ Guide to Growth
Practical strategies for leaders looking to build effective, scalable teams in fast-paced environments. It highlights key principles and recommendations for tackling the complexities of scaling tech companies.
How Can Platform Teams Prioritize Effectively
Platform teams face unique challenges balancing requests from other teams and their own priorities. This post offers actionable frameworks for prioritizing tasks, managing competing demands, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals, while balancing between short-term needs and long-term strategy.
In 2025, I’ll continue focusing on scaling product and tech organizations, with an emphasis on addressing niche topics that are most pressing today.
Finding topics that are both relevant and actionable is one of the key challenges in writing. That’s why every question I receive from you makes the process so much easier—and more rewarding. With a clear question to answer, the writing flows more naturally, and I can be confident it’s delivering real value.
So if you have any specific challenge on your mind, don’t hesitate to share it. It’s a win-win: you get insights tailored to your needs, and I get the opportunity to explore something fresh and exciting.
Formats: Mixing Things Up
Most of the articles I’ve published so far follow a problem-solution format, with a few interview-based pieces highlighting insightful conversations I’ve had with inspiring leaders.
In 2025, I’d aim to include more content with:
Guest Contributors and Interviews: Showcasing incredible people with unique perspectives on scaling products and teams. If you’d like to share your insights —please reach out 📩
Deep Dives and Toolkits: Practical, in-depth resources like case studies and actionable frameworks you can apply to your work.
Your Questions, Answered: Posts dedicated to solving specific challenges or questions you’ve shared.
Personal Milestones and Learnings
Looking back at 2024, it feels like the year has been both incredibly short and incredibly long—a paradox many of you might relate to.
Scaling my team at Gradyent has been my primary focus at work. Working in a fast-growing scaleup is a uniquely rewarding experience, with constant challenges and unexpected hiccups along the way. The pace, intensity, and volume of learning often make it feel like you’ve been in the role for years, even as time flies by.
Meanwhile, Lean Product Growth has been providing a grounding complement to my primary work. It gives me the opportunity to step away from the daily chaos, reflect, structure my thoughts, and share them with you in a way I hope adds value. Best of all, it’s allowed me to connect with incredible people who inspire me to think bigger and better.
On the personal side, this year November brought a significant milestone: the arrival of my second son. Moments like these are a powerful reminder of what truly matters in life. While I’m savoring every moment of my leave (even with one eye on the clock as the weeks fly by), I’ve had the rare chance to pause and reflect on what this year has taught me:
Continuity of Small Steps Leads to Progress Whether it’s scaling a team, writing a newsletter, or teaching your child a new habit, patience and steady effort are the keys to meaningful progress. Big changes often come from small, incremental improvements applied consistently over time.
Less Is More In a world where everything is at our fingertips—information, tools, material possessions—simplicity has become a superpower. Focusing on fewer priorities, eliminating distractions, and filtering the unnecessary are essential for keeping a clear mind and making meaningful progress toward our goals.
Step Back to Accelerate Taking a step back from the daily chaos is a true blessing—though I’ll admit, breaking the habit of constantly checking work emails when I first started my leave wasn’t easy. But stepping away from the noise brings clarity. It’s in these quieter moments, free from distractions, that your best ideas often emerge.
A Big Thank You
To everyone who reads or subscribes to Lean Product Growth: thank you for being part of this journey.
If there’s a topic you’re curious about, a challenge you’re facing, or an idea you’d like to explore, feel free to reach out to have a chat. 💬
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Wishing you a fantastic start to 2025! 🎉