Don’t do customer interviews, unless..
The right way to do customer discovery and interviews By now you have read 100s of articles and books and blogs about the power of customer discovery and talking to customers. If you are a startup, you are advised to do early discovery and even solicit early customers before you actually have a product. If […]
Avoid the RICE prioritization
RICE can be easily manipulated I dislike RICE. (Not the edible one which I enjoy in almost all cuisines.) I am sure you have heard about this prioritization method and even applied it. Today, I will make the case why you should not use it and what is the alternative. What is RICE? RICE is […]
Lessons Building Products with Limited Resources
How to ensure success in a resource constrained environments I’ve always felt like a bit of an underdog as a product manager. Based in the Bay Area, I’m surrounded by folks working at tech giants like Google, Amazon, Meta, and the like. For a long time, I thought that to truly experience product management, […]
How to incorporate AI in your product roadmap
Incorporate AI in your product, but not for the sake of it. It’s a legit question and every company in the world is scrambling to get AI into their product. If your product is AI first e.g. video generators or image classifications, then you are looking out for the market/segment who will find the […]
Why customer don’t adopt features?
Why don’t users adopt the features you have so painstakingly built for them? One of the most frustrating things about building products is to learn that usage and adoption is low or non existent. There are multiple reasons for that and understanding the root causes is critical before you create a plan of action. A […]
Managing Feature Bloat in Enterprise Products
Not everything is bloat. Some features are meant to be rarely used. Let’s talk about feature usage and adoption. What is common across these household products? That’s right. These are items you rarely or never need and yet you need to have them handy. Pray there is never a fire and you never have to […]
Factoring Opportunity Costs in Product Decisions
Opportunity cost is the biggest cost a PM is responsible for Do you what is opportunity cost? If not, then buckle up. Because this is the most important cost that you are responsible for as a product manager. In this article What is Opportunity Cost Understanding Opportunity Costs as a PM How to determine Opportunity […]
Is it complex or complicated?
It’s important to know the difference between complex and complicated, especially in the age of AI Are Complex and Complicated synonyms? Have you been in a situation where you are trying to explain some logic in your product to stakeholders or executives, or you are listening to an engineer explain something to you. You go […]
What’s the M in product management?
Turns out PMs have to manage a lot If you’ve been keeping up with social media posts from product management experts, you’ve probably noticed a common theme: everyone’s trying to define what product management really is. With no universally agreed-upon definition of PM, two new trends have emerged. First, there’s the famous talk by Brian […]
The conundrum of release planning
Crafting a perfect release plan that is aligned to business objectives. As you plan your work with your engineering for an upcoming release release or upcoming quarter, you will likely be faced with this conundrum of selecting the right set of product priorities. Without a proper framework for prioritization, there will be endless debates on […]
