Throughout the years, we’ve defined product management is many different ways. Some define it as the general business structure within a company that supports and manages all the activities related to developing, marketing and selling a product — or even more than one — all through its lifecycle. While others define it as the role and function …
Originally published on Medium on Jan 18 2020 Bad products are everywhere. Products that simply aren’t useful, don’t work right, are too difficult to learn, or that take forever to sell. Being a product manager takes you through a fast-paced viewpoint changes. One moment you are viewing a problem from 10,000 feet and the next …
Originally published on Medium on Dec 20, 2019 Everyone has a list of books they want to read. Most of you will fuel that list with recommendations for Product Managers, scattered throughout the interwebs. And those are typical to your role, your challenges. However, sometimes, inspiration can be found in the most random places — …
First Published on Noteworthy on Dec 14, 2019 Digital transformation has been the need of the hour, for at least for the last 5 years. However, a whopping 84% of digital transformation attempts fail at their transformation. Quoting Michael Gale (from Pluspoint Group) within the article: One of the most basic impediments to moving forward on the road to …
Originally published on Medium on Dec 1, 2019 There is a lot of talk around super-apps in MENA recently. Major retailers are realizing that their current offering isn’t sufficient to create the ‘stickiness’ they’re prone to expect from their offline stores. Some retailers, without a strong infrastructure, are even planning to build a super-app. The …
Originally published on The Startup on Oct 29, 2019 We’ve all read of the million transactions/sec systems of Google or Linkedin. And we’ve read about the scale of Netflix and its success with Microservices architecture (MSA). More often than not, we’re tempted to implement the same level of complexities within our systems, without understanding the …
First Published on Noteworthy on Oct 28, 2019 Organizational culture has been a largely ignored part of digital transformation. While it is lightly touched upon by the big consultancy reports, there is a certain taboo in talking about culture. Culture is personal to many business owners — the bitter truth is deflates their version of …
Published first on UX Collective on Oct 18, 2019 A critical aspect of analyzing the customer journey is timing. Timing is critical to analyze customer funnel. If there are complicated steps within a page for a user to complete, they will take longer. As GA users, we’re often focused on the number of users that …
Originally published on Medium on the October 2, 2018. Interestingly, not all websites are hosted on the cloud. Some of us still use VPS hosted PHP based frameworks, using CMSs like Drupal/Wordpress. And sometimes, we get requests to expose our APIs to enable our shiny new mobile apps (this has happened). And when that happens, …
Prioritization is one of the more important things product managers do. And mostly, a framework is useful to uniformize the various qualitative aspect of prioritizing. Many organizations adopt a specific framework (most use HiPPO, but matured ones may use a variant that’s far more objective) that helps them position the backlog (and the promises). You …