Category: Product Management
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Validating your product hypothesis with a fake door test
You cannot and should not build every feature that is there in your backlog. One way many companies, especially startups, gauge the need of a specific feature is via a Fake door test. What is a Fake door test To put it simply, instead of building the feature your product simply pretends to have that […]
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Product Strategy – Marty Cagan
Listened to a great talk on product strategy by Marty Cagan, author or Inspired . Here is a summary, you can also listen to the talk embedded below
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Structuring your thoughts: for Product managers
Structuring your thought process and ideas can help you focus your energy and prevent you from getting overwhelmed
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Some unpopular opinions I hold -Tech Corporate world
Some unpopular opinions I hold (Subject to change, of course) -Tech Corporate world Presentations are mostly useless. They waste time, encourage intellectual laziness, are manipulative by nature, and lead to bad decisions. Open offices are bad for both productivity and collaboration. They mostly increase distractions., and any gains in collaboration are small in comparison to […]
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The Fallacy of Anecdotal Evidence
Heard this? “The Tarot card reader was able to pin point the exact reason for my suffering” Or “I know homoeopathy does not work, BUT my uncle was cured of chronic headaches when he started taking those medicines” Or “I was able to pass the exam after the holy man blessed me” Are you […]
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Here is the problem with defining what a Minimal Viable Product is
Minimal Viable Product: One of the most used and abused buzzwords of the startup ecosystem. Ability to define an MVP also happens to be one of the key criteria for hiring Product Managers. One of the most common follies that many potential product manager hopefuls make is, focusing only on the “Minimal” aspect and forgetting […]
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Boring Chat Bots are Coming – #ChatBots #Future
A chat bot here , a chat bot there . Even God does not know what chatbots cannot do. Your next wave of Chat bots would be boring and possibly annoying like an IVRS
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How I made my first android app over a weekend- A lazy sloth way
How I beat my procrastination and finally released an first android app over a weekend ..the Sloth way
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Product Management Haiku #5 : Trump Style : Use case without users
I have a use case, It is a good use case ,Huge, Zero users though There are a lot of interesting use cases you can solve. Stop any person in your company and ask them , do you have a use case to solve? The answer invariably would be Yes(If it is NO often , […]
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Product Management Haiku #3: Tech debt
If unrepaid will haunt the tech debt has to be paid circle of PM life Moral of the story: Pay your tech debts. Features can wait sometimes, you can have released where you have nothing to show. Absolutely 0 visual progress. Your product update would be ” Fixed some bugs” or “better logging”…do it and […]