# The Very Important Visitors > Headlines only for last week because it's a busy time and things are moving fast. > Last updated: 2019-08-19 Headlines only for last week because it's a busy time and things are moving fast. ## Five Things That Happened *We did more things than this* ### One We had a visit from a couple of very important people under [the new leadership](https://www.gov.uk/government/people/boris-johnson) of the current government. I'm not sure I'm allowed to name them (I'll check, in the spirit of being open) but I was glad to have attended a public speaking bootcamp a few weeks ago. The skills I learned worked well. _Edit: No, I'm not. Not now, anyway. ### Two I met with [Mark Dalgarno](https://twitter.com/MarkDalgarno/) to talk about how product teams can manage upwards, helping the more senior layers of management devise a strategy for achieving an organisation's outcomes. He's a damn clever bloke and good company to boot. Later in the week I chatted with [Alice Noakes](https://twitter.com/AliceNoakes) about the same subject and it sounds like she's basically been an internal management consultant at the Care Quality Commission. A tough brief but she's approached it with tenacity. She's a bloody good product manager though, so you'd expect that. If anyone else would like to talk about managing upwards, drop me a line. I suspect there's more stories out there. (I'm lucky that I don't need to manage upwards, but it's worthwhile learning how just in case.) ### Three I formed a new team for Brexit-y business – and unfortunately had to put Permissions to bed for a bit – and spent three days blasting through the Nebula of Unknown to arrive at a minimum viable product (MVP). I'm grateful for having a strong technical lead in Kevin and I've been lucky enough to work alongside [Anna](https://twitter.com/annagoss), who's a bloody great service designer and product manager. Figuring out all the possibilities and technical complications to arrive at what's most readily valuable, usable, feasible and viable is draining. ### Four [Alex](https://twitter.com/blangry) asked me if his approach to product-managing something was sound. It was, of course. A man of his capabilities needn't ask a kid like me! ### Five Oh yeah, and some of the statistics community got annoyed by some changes that we made to the [Research & Statistics finder](https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics). It's something I inherited from another product manager and so I trusted that they'd covered all the bases, but it turned out they hadn't. Regardless, we've had a feedback survey running on the new finder since 4 June – it's just no one got in touch to say there were features missing. Ffuuuuuuuu— Anyway, it's all sorted now. We also had to switch the A/B test to 100:0 for Elasticsearch 5 vs Elasticseach 6. That's because the new content similarity algorithm, [BM25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25), was throwing up some weird results and publishers were getting antsy, what with Brexit on the way. It was fine to switch back though, we've collected a week's worth of clicks performance data for analysis. The team are working on optimising the queries relative to BM25 now. Michael's had a [clever idea](https://memo.barrucadu.co.uk/weeknotes-048.html). I miss the team. ## Bookmarks - [The 3-Click Rule for Navigation Is False](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/3-click-rule/), 6 mins - [Cognitive Mapping in User Research](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/cognitive-mapping-user-research/), 17 mins - [Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t](https://hbr.org/2019/07/why-innovation-labs-fail-and-how-to-ensure-yours-doesnt), 7 mins - [How New Versions of Products Spread Differently Than Entirely New Products](https://hbr.org/2019/07/how-new-versions-of-products-spread-differently-than-entirely-new-products), 3 mins - [Nimble Leadership](https://hbr.org/2019/07/nimble-leadership), 21 mins - [Building a case based on assumptions](https://www.zoeonthego.org/2019/08/08/building-a-case-based-on-assumptions/), 6 mins - [Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/information-scent/), 6 mins - [Why you should set up a service community](https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2019/08/13/why-you-should-set-up-a-service-community/), 3 mins - [Deceivingly Strong Information Scent Costs Sales](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/wrong-information-scent-costs-sales/), 3 mins - [Satisficing in UX Design: Fast Access to Good-Enough Stuff](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/satisficing/), 5 mins - [Jere­my Deller: ​“It wasn’t all about drugs”](https://theface.com/culture/jeremy-deller-interview-everybody-in-the-place-an-incomplete-history-of-britain-1984-1992), 7 mins - [Dull hipsters in broad daylight – why I’m done with today’s dance music](https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/dull-hipsters-in-broad-daylight-why-im-done-with-todays-dance-music/), 4 mins - [No Logo at 20: have we lost the battle against the total branding of our lives?](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/no-logo-naomi-klein-20-years-on-interview), 16 mins - [How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist](https://hbr.org/2019/07/how-to-do-strategic-planning-like-a-futurist), 9 mins