User Manual Template
Product Managers often write the User Manual for their product. This may be the final version or an input to a technical writer. Here is a template I have used…
Digital Transformation: An Easy* Four-Step Tech Driven Strategy
Digital Transformation Strategies often fail to cross the chasm between a CDO/CIO’s Transformational vision and the long tail of ‘Business As Usual’. This can be averted by adopting a pragmatic…
Inverse Shu Ha Ri – An Alt Approach to Transformation
For the past few years, I am working with a banking client to build a transformative Data Platform. It was very clear from the beginning that this platform will take…
Experiment Canvas: Tool for Articulating & Shaping Product Experiments
Why Experiment Canvas? An idea is based on a hypothesis that came about based on some research, an opportunity, a threat or a serendipitous moment. However, it is important to…
Idea Canvas aka Idea Board: Tool for Articulating and Shaping Ideas
Why Idea Board? With more and more organizations asking employees to contribute product ideas, growth on innovation teams as a separate entity, promotion of experimental thinking, increase in risk appetite…
Hour-Glass Model for Platform MVP
An MVP ‘thin slice’ allows the product team to align a key business process for clear desired outcomes and value to ones who are ultimately paying up. This thought needs…
About The Book: #ProMa Product Management Tools, Methods and Some Off-the-wall Ideas
“Based on his popular blog, Dinker Charak brings a collection of tools, methodologies, and some unexpected approaches to Product Management. He also talks about his entrepreneurial journey from the eye…
Using Product Management Canvas for Your Product
Your organisation Your org is one among these: 1) A startup or an SME company. Hopefully there is not much of hierarchy and ‘Individual Contributors’ in how most of you…
Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy in 4 Steps
To develop a Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy, I suggest following four steps: 1 Know Your Product Well It is OK for Sales superstars in Dilbert world to know little about the…
Dirty-Work Group – A Model for Entrepreneurs
Or Don't Let Your Lack of Ability To Do a Part-of-it Stop You from Doing What You Want to Happen Let us face it. Either we have all the talent…