Great product managers don’t just execute—they inspire, influence, and drive meaningful outcomes with limited resources. The very skills that make a product manager successful are also great leadership skills.
Product Management
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Zoom-in and Zoom-out
Imagine your goal is to navigate out of the forest but all you can see is dense trees. In such a case, it is hard to find your way out. But instead, if you zoom out to get a bird’s eye view, you can figure out a roadmap. That’s product management.
Focus on the problem, not the solution
Since childhood, we have been conditioned to give answers & solve problems. As product managers, you should focus on asking the right questions to discover the root of the problem before jumping to solve it. Obsessively focus on the problem, not the solution that you came up with.
AOP Planning
Creating an AOP is a strategic not a tactical exercise. Following a structured approach will help you deliver the AOP. Establish OKRs, Collaborate with teams, perform SWOT analysis, establish a coherent strategy, identify customer insights, work backwards from the goal, allocate resource & establish feedback loops to ensure you stay on track
Reps and goals
Achieving goals is hard, mostly because we were never taught how to go about it. I am on a quest to learn the art & science of achieving goals and in the process share my learnings here. Achieving goals, why is it so hard? During my career as a product manager building products; as a…
PM’s guide to Product launch checklist
How to create a Product launch checklist? A product manager is responsible for not only building the product but also shipping, monitoring & iterating. As part of shipping the product, the product manager is responsible for tracking dependencies, highlighting risks and communicating with stakeholders to keep everyone on the same page to manage expectations. Many…
Product Requirement Document (PRD) Template
You are hired as the first product manager at an early stage startup. You are expected to hit the ground running, start shipping product features to attract customers. Often these features are ideas that the founders want to build. You are under pressure to quickly build a prototype to test the idea. You quickly mock…
What startups can learn from David vs Goliath
Since childhood, I had heard David vs Goliath story countless number of times. But few weekends ago, I read the book by Malcolm Gladwell, David vs Goliath — Underdogs, misfits and art of battling giants. While I shall reserve my book review for another post, I would like to talk about how this changed my perception…