In this episode of Frameworks, Stories & Strategy, we explore Wardley Maps — a powerful visual tool for understanding how your business evolves and how your product fits in the bigger picture.

You’ll learn:

• The core elements of a Wardley Map: Value Chain → Evolution Stages (Genesis → Custom → Product → Commodity)

• How to mentally map and remember the framework so you can explain it to your team or interview panel without fumbling

• How mapping helps you spot opportunities, manage risk, and align product decisions with larger business strategy

• The connection between product positioning and strategic evolution — why companies like Slack and Netflix thrive by understanding where they play on the map

If you’ve ever wondered why some teams seem to be chasing novelty while others dominate in scale — this episode will give you the mental model to chart your own course.

In this episode of Frameworks, Stories & Strategy, we explore the BICEPS framework — a simple but powerful tool to help leaders and product teams think holistically about value creation and performance.

We’ll break down the six pillars of BICEPS:

• Business Results

• Innovative Edge

• Customer Experience

• Employee Experience

• Process Optimization

• Sustainability

You’ll learn how to mentally map and remember BICEPS (without getting lost in jargon), how to apply it to strategic planning, and how to use it in interviews to demonstrate big-picture thinking. We’ll also cover ways to adapt the framework to your product org — whether you’re scaling a startup or aligning cross-functional teams in a larger enterprise.

By the end, you’ll have a practical and memorable tool to guide conversations about what really drives business success today.

In this episode of Frameworks, Stories & Strategy, we explore Teresa Torres’s powerful product discovery tool — the Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) — and how to mentally map it, use it, and remember it in the heat of your next product decision or interview.

We break down:

• The key levels of the tree: Outcome → Opportunities → Solutions → Assumption Tests

• How to align discovery work with business goals through continuous interviewing and ideation

• Mental tricks and visual hooks to help you recall and explain OSTs clearly to stakeholders (or recruiters)

We also touch on common challenges like linking research, tracking project status, and customizing the OST for real-world use — and offer practical workarounds.

If you’ve ever lost your discovery work in a tangle of Miro boards and Google Docs, this episode will help you think — and build — with more structure and clarity.

In this episode of Frameworks, Stories & Strategy, we unpack Shape Up, the product development methodology created by Basecamp that challenges traditional agile models and replaces backlogs with bets.

We’ll break it down in a way that’s easy to remember and apply — using mental models and mnemonics to help you retain:

• The shaping phase: where senior folks define the problem, appetite (time budget), and rough solution

• The betting table: how projects get greenlit for a focused 6-week cycle

• The concept of fixed time, variable scope — and how it helps teams ship without burnout or scope creep

We’ll also cover the strengths and common criticisms of Shape Up, including the need for highly skilled teams and how it handles (or doesn’t handle) long-term initiatives or support work.

If you’ve ever felt like your roadmap is a never-ending to-do list, this episode might just reshape your thinking.

In this episode of Frameworks, Stories & Strategy, we challenge the increasingly popular mantra of “think like an owner” — and unpack why leadership isn’t the same as ownership.

We explore:

• The difference between showing initiative and being expected to carry disproportionate weight

• Why “ownership mentality” can feel empowering — or exploitative — depending on compensation, boundaries, and context

• Real-world perspectives from employees and managers who’ve questioned this mindset

• Alternative ways to align teams — like transparent compensation, phantom equity, and financial literacy — without blurring the lines between loyalty and free labor

This isn’t about rejecting responsibility. It’s about redefining what leadership really means in modern organizations — especially when actual ownership is off the table.

If you’ve ever been told to "own it" but felt like you were just inheriting someone else’s burnout, this one’s for you.

In this episode of Frameworks, Stories & Strategy, we turn the Double Diamond design process into something you’ll never forget — literally.

We’ll walk through each of the four stages — Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver — and show you how to lock them into memory using mnemonics, visual cues, and narrative structure. You’ll learn:

• The logic behind the two “diamonds” of divergence and convergence

• How to use the framework to structure product thinking, even in messy orgs

• How to recall it confidently in interviews, workshops, or when leading strategy

This isn't just a design tool — it’s a way to communicate clearly, collaborate better, and show up as a more structured, thoughtful PM.

By the end, you’ll have a memory palace-shaped diamond ready to go.

In this episode of Frameworks, Stories & Strategy, we break down A/B testing into memorable, bite-sized pieces — helping you retain what matters and avoid the most common traps.

You’ll learn:

• How to remember the key stages of A/B testing using simple mnemonics

• What terms like control, treatment, and statistical significance actually mean (and how to explain them in interviews without sweating)

• How to spot false positives, underpowered tests, and sample size issues — before they derail your results

• Plus: how to ethically approach A/B testing with user privacy in mind

Whether you're prepping for a PM interview or launching your next experiment, this episode gives you the mental shortcuts and structure to think like a data-driven pro.

In this episode of Frameworks, Stories & Strategy, we explore how to turn your brain into a high-performance workspace using mnemonics, memory palaces, and other proven memory techniques.

Whether you're prepping for interviews, managing complex product work, or just tired of forgetting acronyms like RICE or INVEST mid-sentence, this episode shows you how to:

• Build and use a Memory Palace to store frameworks, processes, and talking points

• Create mental hooks using association, imagery, and storytelling

• Use multimodal rehearsal (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) to lock things in long term

Frameworks aren’t the focus — they’re the payload. This episode is all about how to store them, retrieve them, and actually use them when it matters most.