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Category: Product Management Lessons

Posted onJuly 27, 2021July 27, 2021Learning

Playbooks

A playbook has three attributes: (1) it gives you plays that can be reliably repeated, (2) these plays can be taught to others, and (3)…

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Posted onJuly 9, 2021July 9, 2021Product Management Lessons

How to be an Effective Product Manager

Everything I have learnt about being an effective product manager condensed into a short video.

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Posted onJune 22, 2021June 22, 2021Frameworks

Product Roadmap Shapes

Product roadmaps typically need to have three important categories of initiatives: Work that helps to Keep the Lights On (KTLO) – tech debt, keeping existing…

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Posted onApril 8, 2021April 8, 2021Product Management Lessons

Behind the Scenes – Kalaari Podcast

Late last year, I had recorded a podcast with Vani Kola of Kalaari Capital. We discussed many different topics – what make a good PM,…

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Posted onFebruary 12, 2021February 12, 2021Frameworks

Rethinking the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

The MVP is dead. The Minimum Viable Product philosophy has become corrupted. We have misunderstood its intent and diluted its core elements over the years.…

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Posted onFebruary 9, 2021August 12, 2021Learning

Transitioning into Product Management

To say that I have followed an unconventional path to becoming a product manager is a little bit of an understatement.  Engineering → Writing →…

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Posted onNovember 13, 2020November 13, 2020Frameworks

Difficulty Curves in Games – Lessons for Product Builders

A young girl wakes up in a daze.  “Where is everyone?”  She walks out of her room and searches her house. Her family is missing.…

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Posted onApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020Frameworks

Exit Cost in Products

A lot has been written about defensibility and moats in businesses. Strategists talk about barriers to entry (resources, patentable technology and processes, expertise, capital) in…

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Posted onMarch 26, 2020March 27, 2020Frameworks

The Product Managers of the Mahabharat

Over a meeting, someone recently asked me to describe the archetype of a product leader. While I answered the question, a broader thought stayed with…

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Bars of Soap
Posted onJanuary 22, 2020December 11, 2020Product Management Lessons

Value Propositions – a Lesson from a Ring-Toss Game

I have been going through a friend’s notes from his favourite classes at NYU’s Stern business school. The notes from Professor Glenn Okun’s classes stand…

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Posted onJanuary 26, 2016January 20, 2020Product Management Lessons

Parenting and Product Management: Speed vs Haste

People who build products and run them live learn some lessons the hard way. For example: speed and haste are not to be confused with…

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Posted onMarch 6, 2015January 20, 2020Product Management Lessons

Empathetic vs Sympathetic Product Development

Recently, I was talking to a technologist I greatly admire about different approaches to problem-solving and product development. His argument (which I strongly agreed with)…

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