The calendar in my opinion is the most important asset that you should be actively protecting as a part of your work. More so if you are a… — The calendar in my opinion is the most important asset that you should be actively protecting as a part of your work. More so if you are a Product Manager because there are so many stakeholders who would like time in the calendar. …

In my opinion, Our brain should be focusing on the ‘how’ part and its best to delegate remembering‘what’ & ‘when’ to a task management… — In my last article I talked about my productivity setup which helps me manage my time efficiently. If you would like to have a quick read, please click here — Link. I never anticipated that article to get as much traction as it did. The attention it got shows that…

What are the best productivity hacks for Product Managers — As a Product Manager, at any point in time there are many items that are vying for your attention throughout the day. There could be development tickets, design reviews, customer interviews, stakeholder emails, Roadmap presentation, commercial discussions with sales/marketing teams, slack, email etc. to name a few. And yet there…

I think the Indian Product Scene is hit by the ‘Gamification’ bug. I attribute the source of this infection to the success of Game Design… — I think the Indian Product Scene is hit by the ‘Gamification’ bug. I attribute the source of this infection to the success of Game Design by ‘Cred app’. If you want to know in detail on the magic ‘Cred’ did — click here. As the IPL (Indian Premier League) has…

Would a newer lesser known company be able to challenge and win it at that? I recently came across an app called Waze — I have never been a direct consumer product manager. However, that hasn’t stopped me from thinking about how challenging or different it would be in managing and scaling a consumer product. I think the challenges increase multi-fold when you manage a product in a market that is already saturated or…

The biggest challenge for an enterprise SAAS company is always going to be about bringing in adoption. It is a lot more complicated and… — The biggest challenge for an enterprise SAAS company is always going to be about bringing in adoption. It is a lot more complicated and difficult compared to a consumer product. Strategies which work for a consumer product may not be well suited in an enterprise setup, for example, in one…

CRED is an Indian startup that simplifies ‘Credit Card Payment’. But what has intrigued me is their successful use of Gamification — Every now and then we come across a very successful product, that comes out of nowhere to capture our imagination. CRED has been one such product that has entered the market with a bang. It has even been rated as a potential future unicorn as per this link. CRED is…

Now that we have seen the Empathy Mapping technique in our Part 1 in this series, I thought I will delve deeper into the interview part. — Now that we have seen the Empathy Mapping technique in our Part 1 in this series, I thought I will delve deeper into the interview part. Many of you wanted to know how to interview and gain empathy. I am going to list some of the techniques that will help…

Empathy — it is an all too common word among product management. The importance of this word cannot be overstated. — Empathy — it is an all too common word in product management. The importance of this word cannot be overstated. Why Empathize? Because as product managers, the problems we are trying to solve are rarely our own. …