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Be the CEO Your Parents Always Wanted You to Marry

I loved this advertising campaign from Bumble and it inspired me to write this blog post. I am six years into my career has already taught…

3 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Be the CEO Your Parents Always Wanted You to Marry

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Sophie Harpur

Unveiling the Roadmap: Lessons Learned Cycling 5000 Kilometers

Last year, my husband and I took on a new challenge together; to cycle around the south island of New Zealand and to chase the cherry…

6 min readJan 9, 2024

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Unveiling the Roadmap: Lessons Learned Cycling 5000 Kilometers

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Sophie Harpur

How to Run Your First Design Sprint

A design sprint is a process originally developed at Google Ventures, and is a way to quickly get to the root of business and user problems…

4 min readSep 9, 2022

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How to Run Your First Design Sprint

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Sophie Harpur

4 ways to level-up your product strategy

Developing your product strategy and communicating your product roadmap is a continual improvement process. Over my time as a product…

4 min readApr 26, 2022

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Sophie Harpur

Being a Product Manager From 5,000 Miles Away

When I was a product manager at Split a couple of years ago, I was 5,000 miles away from the rest of my team where I learnt a lot about…

5 min readNov 15, 2021

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Being a Product Manager From 5,000 Miles Away

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Sophie Harpur

Beginners Guide: Product Principles

All product teams are faced with a lot of decisions every day. When your product team grows, more people are making key decisions about the…

4 min readJul 30, 2021

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Beginners Guide: Product Principles

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Sophie Harpur

How to Get Started in Product Management

Product is a great and exciting function to work in, a function that you can make a direct and meaningful impact on a company’s direction…

4 min readApr 27, 2021

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How to Get Started in Product Management

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Sophie Harpur

Reflections on 365 days Meat Free

I have officially been meat-free for 365 days and I wanted to write this blog post to share my experience of taking on this challenge and…

5 min readFeb 9, 2021

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Reflections on 365 days Meat Free

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Sophie Harpur

Wellness and Working From Home

I have been working remotely for a few years now and here are some of the things I try and do to keep my wellness in check while working…

3 min readFeb 5, 2021

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Wellness and Working From Home

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Sophie Harpur

9 to 5 Doesn’t Have to Suck

I have seen so many blogs on ‘escaping the 9 to 5 life’, ‘why you shouldn’t be working 9 to 5’ so much recently. What if you want to work…

4 min readJan 31, 2021

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9 to 5 Doesn’t Have to Suck

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Sophie Harpur

Sophie Harpur

Sharing stories and lessons from my career, the product world and generally living in my 20s. Northern Irish, based in Edinburgh.

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