Reading Time: 6 minutesBrand is Product and Product is Brand In many companies, brand and marketing are often one department; as such, they are often spoken about in the same breath. For a long time, I also thought of brand only in conjunction with marketing. If I’m being honest, during the early stages of my…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the tech world, it’s not uncommon for a former founder and entrepreneur to return to a big tech company as a product leader. In fact, entrepreneurship is the perfect experience for product leadership roles at larger companies. Entrepreneurs bring a wide-variety of skills that are instrumental to product leadership positions. Some…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn my last post, I shared some guidelines for developing product strategy. The best way to communicate the product strategy is through a roadmap and depending on the company, Objective & Key Results (OKRs). Roadmaps are a collaborative efforts amongst the various leaders and leads that make up each product development team.…
Reading Time: 6 minutesI read the book Good Strategy/Bad Strategy when it first came out years ago and it is a book I plan to revisit more frequently as I advance in my product career. If you only had time to read one business book this year, I highly recommend it. Recently, a product lead…
Reading Time: 3 minutesBias-to-action! Move fast & break things! Execute & Ship! These are just some of the phrases that most folks working in tech are accustomed to. While there are merits to each of these guidance phrases and their applications are certainly contextual, often times product teams default to them as their modus operandi.…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been fortunate to attend schools where Learning by Doing, Mens et Manus were the modus operandi. As an engineering double-major undergrad, I spent so much time in labs that I sometimes took it for granted. It wasn’t until I attended lectures at other universities that I appreciated the value of my…
Reading Time: 3 minutesInversion thinking and theory is as old as Mathematics. There exists a variety of inverse operations in mathematics. For instance, Division is the inverse of Multiplication; Subtraction is the inverse operation of Addition etc. In Algebra, the inverse function is one that reverses another function. It undoes the operation of the original…
Reading Time: 6 minutesYou often take for granted the great, the good, and the mediocre managers you’ve had along the way…that is until you’ve encountered a terrible manager. The saying is true: Your manager makes or breaks your experience in the workplace Some wise person I still have some residual trauma from the worst manager…
Reading Time: 4 minutesProduct Analytics helps product managers make the best decisions for their users, customers, and company. Effective product analysis allows product teams to build great products and accelerate business growth. Studies have shown that businesses who actively use analytics to aid their product development efforts experience higher growth than counterparts who don’t. If…
Reading Time: 3 minutesProduct Managers are often inundated with feedback and new feature requests. These requests can come from user feedback, sales insights, data trend analyses, product strategy, amongst others. As a result, it sometimes becomes difficult to distill the signal from the noise. Regardless of the source, you must always assess the validity of…
