Learnings: Don’t think about features and competitors. Think about the market and customers. Manage the product team, and don’t create silos. Status reports on time with the honest truth and challenges Owns the product strategy, not individual features Does not over delegates, thinks broadly and delegates the pieces of complete picture Asks lot of questions […]

Early in my career, I used to get so excited from hearing client’s complaints that I would instantly start to conceptualize solutions and put them in the backlog, ready to be discussed and pushed in the roadmap. Only later, I started realizing that none of the solutions were getting used as much as I had […]

Originally written by Ben Horowitz in 1998 of a16z fame, this article still holds true. Republishing it here, so I can re-read whenever there seems to be a need for it. CEO of the product A good product manager acts like and is viewed as CEO of the product. CEOs drive vision and are ultimately […]

A recent experience* provoked me to write this post – when we had to roll back a product update just after a week. To handle the situation better next time, I came through “reversible vs irreversible” decision concept and developed my framework to take hard decisions and still being customer-obsessed. This is not new. I […]

“Product-Market Fit” is a term that is often thrown around and I have been guilty of saying it myself. However, often the term framing gives rise to the wrong understanding and later used inappropriately while talking about ideas. It is argued that the correct way of talking about the concept is to use the term […]

If we are not careful, it is easy to fall into the trap of project management and still believe that you are doing product management as you are talking to users, running sprints and delivering. It is the most dangerous trap in the life of a Product Manager. This disguise of work can slowly corrupt […]

Internet is filled with all hundreds if not thousands of good Product Management blogs. However, most of them are trying to sell you something like their products, ebooks or courses. Here is a curated list of personal Product Management blogs, written by real product managers based on years of experience. Initially, I use to read […]

In product management, leading a team becomes implicit ask though we are accountable only to product success. However, one of the main components for building a successful product is dedication from team.  Therefore, it becomes crucial for product managers to lead the team and drive them towards a set goal, even though the team members […]