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…
Product Thinking for Startups – A Product Management Conversation – NASSCOM Vizag
After a hiatus of 3 years, I am back to organizing and running Product workshops. This was kick-started with a talk on Product Thinking organized in association with NASSCOM, Vizag.…
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…
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…