The Gardeners' World Blog

I'm the Head of Product Management for BBC Journalism. My job title is one of those BBC classics which means very little to the outside world, but my team of product managers provides a key role in the ongoing development of various BBC interactive services.

We study how our audiences' needs are changing, our editorial colleagues' priorities and what the changing technology can offer. We turn these ideas into services which our designers and technical teams can build, and which you - the audience - will want to use.

The "products" we manage include all of BBC Sport's websites, mobile services and interactive TV, their equivalents from BBC News and Weather and many of our local, regional and international services.

So, while it's no longer my only objective, sport remains my first love. Previously I was Development Editor of BBC Sport Interactive and part of the launch team for bbc.co.uk/sport in 2000. We've come a long way since then but I believe all of the BBC's interactive services have a lot further to travel amid the current relentless and breathtaking pace of change.

My sole aim here is to share some of what we're up to and get constructive feedback but forgive me if I occasionally stray onto Aston Villa, cycling, rugby league, cricket and the rest of my sporting passions.

The eagle-eyed might notice some changes to some pages on the site. These are part of a number of developments designed to improve the way we display stories and information, and - as ever - we want your feedback.

Perhaps the biggest immediate change is the removal of the "also in this section" list of stories from the right-hand side of story pages. The dropdown menu containing the same information disappeared a week ago too.

This has been done for a number of reasons. There is a limit to the amount of links you can put on a page before people just switch off to everything, a limit we think we have gone beyond at times, especially on some of our shorter stories.

All our research and testing shows that very few people actually use the "also in this section" links so these were the unlucky ones when the difficult choice was made about which links should go.