A 5 step way to getting better outcomes from discussions. As it happens often, my corporate organization is on the brink of change. Which means, consultants are flooding in from every corner of the world — trying to make sense of the change and impart their wisdom for a fee. As such, in the cacophony […]
Tag: Product Management
9 Lessons learned by being the Product Manager, the Developer & the Designer on my photography website project
Note: This article was written when the website was still being developed (~28th Dec). It is currently live and has gone through 2 iterations of bug fixes. Check out photography.rkakodker.com. Your feedback is welcomed! I’ve been a tinkerer all my life. Technology fascinates me, like nothing else. I also like to photograph. I thought, over the […]
How culture determines your value measurement
Yesterday, after a year of working with Data Scientists, I was thrown (yet) another question by my favorite data scientist on how can we measure the value of our personalization activities on business. It struck me differently – sure, we had the usual A/B testing framework for continuous improvement and we had incremental uplift monitoring […]
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3 Quick lessons in Product Management
Here is a quick round-up of 3 lessons I’ve learned over the last 10 years in product management. You’re not the focal point. You’re the facilitator. Many PMs make the mistake of being in every conversation. Don’t. You’re not a subject-matter expert. Let the teams discuss among themselves. Provide inputs where required. You’re to facilitate […]
Comprehensive Guide to Change Management
Managing change is a difficult aspect of Product Management, often looked over. As Product Managers, we’re all about change. Any constant is boring! There is always an opportunity to optimize, improve, or experiment! However, with every change that we bring, there is a change that might have an impact on the way of working for […]
New to Product Management? Here are 6 foundations you should build!
Product management demand has grown substantially over the last half-decade. In the US alone, the demand has gone up by 32% (2 year period as of June 2019), beating other roles in software. It is no wonder than new product managers are thrust into this maddening management of chaos we call Product Management. So, there […]
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Negotiation Do’s & Don’ts in Product Management
Getting away with an Yes, without saying a No! A common question I get from new product managers is how do they get the development team/stakeholders to agree to the terms they’re proposing OR how do they negotiate the terms of product feature and scope? These should sound familiar if you’re already handling products: “The designs […]
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Your First 90 Days as the ONLY Product Manager
Establishing yourself & your product function in the first 90 days Mature product organizations have it easier than their newbie counterparts. Established product organizations have a semblance of a framework, established value for product, a support structure for new product persons joining, and product mentorship. However, as the ONLY product manager in an organization, you have […]
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4 Basic Communication Elements for Product Folks
Communication is an intricate part of Product management. If you’ve been reading my articles, you’ll know that I emphasize the following adjectives to describe your communication: subtle, concise, and correct. Over the last 10 years, I’ve spent honing my communication skills as much as I have spent developing my product skills. And it has reaped […]
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Negotiation Do’s & Don’ts in Product Management
A common question I get from new product managers is how do they get the development team/stakeholders to agree to the terms they’re proposing OR how do they negotiate the terms of product feature and scope? These should sound familiar if you’re already handling products: “The designs submitted cannot be completed within the given time! […]
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6 Principles of Product Management
Product management is, essentially, managing chaos. The chaos could be problems faced by customers, business goals, or decisions to be taken. The chaos itself is deafening and as product managers, we’ve to filter out the noise and resonate with the signals. To help us achieve that, I’ve identified 6 primary principles for product managers. These […]
Quickly Generate Pricebooks for Salesforce Commerce Cloud using Node.Js
Salesforce Commerce Cloud – known as ‘Demandware’ until the recent acquisition by Salesforce – is used by major global retail brands including Adidas, Burton, Puma, and Lacoste. It is a highly scalable, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce solution. It offers best-in-class features and functionality developed and refined over many years to provide a highly optimised ecommerce […]
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3 Ways to Dominate Your Organization’s Data
With the close of 2019, we generated over 40 Zetabytes of data (source) . All of this information was captured, stored and processed for making decisions, complex & simple. Your own product, for example, may be generating millions of rows of data, monthly on Google Analytics alone. As a data oriented product manager, you have […]
5 Common Pitfalls to Avoid as Product Manager
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. Most of them suffer the common pitfalls of product management. Being a product manager takes you through a fast-paced viewpoint changes. One moment you […]
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3 Definitive Steps in Digital Transformation
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 […]
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Impact of Technology on Company Culture
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 […]
Simple guide to managing heavy server load – PM Guide
Originally published on Medium on the October 2, 2018. Interestingly, not all websites are hosted on the cloud, which helps in managing heavy server load. 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 […]
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Definitive Feature Prioritization Framework Guide
Feature 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). […]
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