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…
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…
Dirty-Work Group
A Team Management, Dynamics and Structure Model (Originally published in 1998) 1. Management - Sense in Multitude 1.1 In the beginning there was... With the industrial revolution, came a problem,…
7 Reasons Why Your Product Will Fail
Seven things your users think that will cause your product to fail “I don’t like it” “I don’t even want it” “I don’t even know how to use it” “I…
Product Management Canvas – Product in a Snapshot
The Product Management Canvas (PMC), is a strategic management and entrepreneurial articulation tool. It allows one to describe a product having the highest return on investment versus risk. This is different…
Building Products – It Takes A Village
XConf ThoughtWorks' XConf is a one-day conference that showcases the latest thinking from ThoughtWorks and friends on a broad range of topics. It provides a platform for passionate software professionals…
The Edge of Product Management: Talk at Institute of Product Leadership
I gave a talk to the students of Executive MBA at Institute of Product Leadership, Bangalore on 19th Nov 2016. It was a conversation around Product Management, industry practitioners approach…