The Scrum guide does not mention User Stories. Still, all the Scrum teams I worked with use them. Many Scrum teams apply User Stories to a fault: User Stories may…
Everyone has an opinion on design. There's always an immediate gut reaction: "Ooh, I love this!" or "Meh." But how do you go beyond that to honing your skills of…
Product managers create a lot of documents. Some important, and some even more important. (There is nothing that PMs do that is not important ????) Today, I’ll talk about ten…
For every feature you decide to build and launch, you need answers to three critical questions: 1. Why are we building this 2. What are we exactly building 3. How…
If you’ve been reading my blogs or following me on Twitter, you know I love talking about what a product manager does (and what a product manager should do). The…
Effective communication is critical to the success of every product manager, irrespective of their experience. Today, I share 10 easy-to-implement tricks that I use to communicate like a boss. But,…
When I started my career, I didn’t always know what to do. More often than not, I was scared - of the unknown, of my (lack of) skills, of making…
Prioritisation is a crucial step in product development. It ensures that we (and our team) are working on the right things. It helps us stay true to the product vision…
Why is setting and measuring goals important? Setting goals and then measuring progress towards them is the only way to monitor success or failure. Secondly, goals act as the link…
Why is prioritisation important? As a product manager, you will always have constraints - less number of engineers, limited time before launch, a fixed amount of money/resources, etc. In other…