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)…
Everything I have learnt about being an effective product manager condensed into a short video.
Product roadmaps typically need to have three important categories of initiatives: Work that helps to Keep the Lights On (KTLO) – tech debt, keeping existing…
Late last year, I had recorded a podcast with Vani Kola of Kalaari Capital. We discussed many different topics – what make a good PM,…
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.…
To say that I have followed an unconventional path to becoming a product manager is a little bit of an understatement. Engineering → Writing →…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…