Once the PMs are done with shipping the MVP, the next challenge lies in scaling it for a larger audience. This requires an understanding of how the algorithm used in building the product behaves once the traffic scales to 10x, 100x and so on. Let’s understand big O notation in…

It’s a best practice for PMs to ensure that their product has rich product analytics & logging across all touch points of the users. What are events? For instance, when a user clicks on your CTA of “Proceed”, it translates into an event. These events aren’t automatically triggered for consumption. Mostly the front-end…

Product leaders have a weekly ritual with their team to discuss the overall progress of the key features & if there are any callouts or unprecedented roadblocks. It’s the prerogative of the Product leaders to ensure that this weekly meeting is utilized to its full potential. I am sharing a…

PMs' calendars are always overflowing with tasks and meetings. They are jumping from meetings to meetings & yet there is no substantial sense of accomplishment. The reason is they are slaves of busy drives & persistent rabbit holes. How to address these rabbit holes?

PMs' efforts are usually invested in improving the organization’s success metric which is largely circumventing around in increasing revenue or MRR, reducing customer acquisition costs, or increasing contribution margin. If we closely monitor, none of these metrics directly help in providing value to the users. In order to grow the…

In the era of constant notifications, context switching has become a necessary evil for product managers. On any given day, a product manager might have to communicate with subordinates, sales executives, marketing managers, developers, and designers. We are under constant pressure from multiple stakeholders to accommodate as many tasks as…

CEOs, CPOs & PMs across different organizations claim to have been operating out of a product-driven culture but usually, those are superficial in nature and thus it requires a set of clear definitions to substantiate this claim. The most pertinent questions such What is the definition of a product-driven approach…

It is often misconstrued that PM's role was to feed the engineering team, delivering tons of product requirement documents ( PRDs ) that would ensure that developers are occupied. This would help to showcase that product & engineering team is super-efficient in delivering lines of code but not at par…

It is expected that PMs won’t be doing coding in order to collaborate with fellow developers however they need to associate with developers & understand the engineering trade-offs for your product roadmap. It’s also imperative to get buy-in from developers for the items in your roadmap as well. In order…