Hey product manager, let me remind you of that time when you had the perfect roadmap for the market. You had it all sorted out (finally!) with engineering and were clear about what you’d build. Your teams had already worked on a few sprints and you felt that this...
I’ve seen this play out so many times over the last few years. A business leader at a services firm will sit down and talk about how they’re working on a product. S/he will quote the usual mix of arguments – services as a business is struggling; Indian firms have...
Problem discovery, a key aspect of product building, requires a combination of skills – the ability to immerse fully in the worlds of different players in the space, building synthesis around multiple points of view, identifying if it’s something we could...
“Let’s use Machine Learning for this.” I was doing a cross-functional client workshop where we were trying to see if we could stack rank of their field force. The field force was involved in multiple programs, each in different geographies. Each...
Over the last few years, I’ve seen a pattern when firms approach me for product workshops. Most of these firms have adopted Agile as a way of working, but with limited success. Poor implementation of the product owner role & lack of understanding of the...
Let’s talk about first-mover disadvantage. First Mover Advantage is widely cited by startups as guiding philosophy. They believe it confers an unbeatable lead in the market. In reality, the first-mover advantage is a bit of a mixed bag. First movers have to...
