The Measure of Success, the Zone of Struggle and The Measure of Failure
The measure of Success (tend to be customer-centric) are a common way to describe the success of a product. "Our Customer Retention score is 90%." "Our Net Promoter Score is…
Elevator Pitch Canvas
Why Elevator Pitch? Imagine this: You come across a high-level exec or say a VC on the way to their office in an elevator. You have an opportunity to tell…
How to Build Products that mean Business! – A Product Management Conversation – NASSCOM Vizag
On Feb 27th 2021, NASSCOM Vizag sent out an open invitation to startups in the region (and beyond) to a conversation on Product Management. This is a sort fo precursor…
Use Pricing Table to Define & Describe Your Product
While a Product Management Canvas is an internal-facing tool to describe or imagine your product, Pricing table is an excellent external-facing tool to describe or imagine your product. Let us…
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…