Tackling Curveballs/Addressing Miscellaneous Problems: This story is written as part of a seven-part series: ÔNotes from my Product Management InterviewsÕ. Read Part 1 here , Part 2 here , Part 3 here , Part 4 here , and Part 5…
There are situations when we deliberately choose quick-and-dirty solutions to validate a new idea with an MVP or to win a customerÕs satisfaction. On the other hand, we too often tend to forget that unattended quick-wins can run you in…
Having worked as a product manager in the startup scene for the past few years, I didnÕt always have the luxury of choosing my team, either for budget reasons or because a team was already in place.
It is very common to find Product Managers who reason as follows: the user has a problem, so I do a feature/improvement/change and solve the problem.
You have heard a lot of people talking about a successful product must have a clear vision. LetÕs talk about how you can set up one for your product.
Goal-based working means you challenge your product teams with a clear goal, then give them time and resources to identify and deliver solutions to achieve it. ItÕs the opposite of a scope based approach where your team commit (usually months…
Till today almost every country is impacted by the Coronavirus and we are having more than 330,000 individuals affected globally. On one side, we can see that China has passed their peek and on the other hand, we can see…
With this portfolio series I would like to showcase the type of products IÕve been involved with and shipped.
In these uncertain times for individuals and businesses, attention (unfortunately) turns to fixed costs such as rent or permanent employees. Even organisations that believe that resources (e.g. people) need to be owned to get the right outcome are being forced…
I recently had the opportunity to interview candidates for a PM position on behalf of a company I consulted for. The deliverables I got, wereÉnot the best. And since these were, on paper, experienced PMs, that led me to believe…
Everyone knows that technical debt is bad. Still many choose to ignore technical debt in favor of new features that are expected to bring value. Often the potential value of the new features is considered to be more important than…
LetÕs face it, working with digital products requires knowing an immense amount of acronyms. UX / UI, BI, LTV, JTBD, MVP, CPC etc.
The technology world is inundated with buzzwords these days. There is scarcely time to keep up. Innovation and disruption are on everyoneÕs lips. Startups and entrepreneurship are glorified to no end. Yet statistics for the success of new products and…
HereÕs a copy of my resume when I was accepted to the Google Associate Product Management (APM) program. This resume should be used as a sample resume when creating your own resume.
I never got so many comments in a post on Facebook since I wrote about the friction between the Product and R&D team regarding the estimation and setting deadlines for tasks. In less than one hour I had 44 comments!…
