Reading Time: 3 minutesTechnical debt often arises when decisions are made for short-term gains with the expectation to course-correct at a later time. Unfortunately, later time becomes a moving target for many companies. This results in a snowball effect impacting the company’s ability to innovate or operate efficiently. Though this article focuses on product teams,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn my post on product prioritization, I listed 6 popular frameworks that product managers can use to focus teams on the most important tasks. While these frameworks are often associated with software development efforts, they shouldn’t be restricted to that. In fact, they are useful for both software and hardware product management…
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) theory has been around for decades but it is still fairly new especially as it applies to Product Development and Product Management. There have been so many variations to the JTBD framework that it has left many product managers confused as to how to effectively use it. The goal…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA product brief is a good starting point for any product manager embarking on a new project. This document is written by the product manager and should be a critical component of product discovery efforts. There are various approaches to early documentation at the discovery level. Amazon has its well-documented Working Backwards…
Reading Time: 3 minutesProduct Managers are often bombarded with requests, suggestions, ideas from internal stakeholders. Everyone from execs, marketing, sales, customer success, engineers, to other PMs are often eager to share ideas that they believe should be prioritized on the roadmap. Unfortunately, PMs have to work with limited resources. As such, much of our jobs…
Reading Time: 4 minutesI once heard someone say: “The best way to break into VC is to already be in VC.” While that was in reference to the Venture Capital (VC) industry, I believe the same sentiment sadly applies to Product Management. The best way to break into product management is to already be in…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe relationship between Product Managers and Customer Success teams is a vital yet often overlooked aspect of product management. Customer Success and Customer Support (CS) Teams are typically an afterthought in the product development process. A product change is made and CS is left to field many requests at the last minute…
Reading Time: 5 minutesPardon the cheesy title but I just had to! What are Epics, Stories, Tasks? Epics, Stories, Tasks are frequently part of the agile development process. As with other aspects of product management, different teams utilize different ways to incorporate them in their product development process. Epic In a nutshell, an epic is…
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are so many great books, blogs, resources on product management, interview prep, career as a whole. The following are just a handful of the many resources that have contributed to my personal and professional growth. Books The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Everyone should read this book and PMs should…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn my last post, I discussed writing product requirements from a software perspective. In this post, I will focus on writing product requirements for hardware. Like software, a product requirements document for hardware is essential for product development optimization. The outcome of the product requirements document is a more defined technical specification…
