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Category: Product Management Lessons

Posted onJanuary 24, 2023January 24, 2023Learning

Why Manage?

The single biggest mistake every first-time manager makes in tech companies (especially product, design and engg) is in believing that they no longer have to…

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Posted onJanuary 15, 2023January 15, 2023Frameworks

What Users Want

Kapi Pe Charcha #005 – Venture Highway “What do users care about? What do they need?” In our previous posts, we talked about speaking to…

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Posted onJanuary 15, 2023January 15, 2023Frameworks

Design Sprints – Short-Circuiting the Development Cycle

Kapi Pe Charcha #004 – Venture Highway “Do I need to set up a team, raise money and build a fully functional product to validate…

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Posted onJanuary 15, 2023January 15, 2023Frameworks

Speaking to Customers

Kapi Pe Charcha #003 – Venture Highway “Would I need to speak to people/ users/ customers?” In our last two posts, we have discussed ways…

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Posted onNovember 23, 2022November 23, 2022Frameworks

Shortlisting Ideas

Kapi Pe Charcha #002 – Venture Highway “OK – so I have a set of ideas now. How do I check if they are any…

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Posted onNovember 16, 2022November 16, 2022Frameworks

Generating Ideas

Kapi Pe Charcha #001 – Venture Highway I am often asked: “How do I constantly come up with new ideas?”  While coming up with ideas,…

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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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