If there’s one thing that I completely missed in my early months as product manager, is the notion that a product manager needs to act as a leader. Sure, I’ve heard that a PM has to serve the team, provide clarity, unblock them to build the product and so forth…

Managing project, in my opinion, is one of those things where its complexity rises as more details are unearthed. On paper, everything may look good but ask any one with experience in managing project, and they’ll tell you that in a project, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong…

The previous entry of the series ended with a significant insight: the moment we shifted the conversation around the platform from a one and done foundational layer set in stone, to a malleable product that we can iteratively craft to address one pain point after another. At this stage, we…

So, we’ve mentioned platform engineering, albeit briefly. And truth be told, it’s a wide domain and building it would be very contextual for every organization, though the goal could be a uniform one: improving developer productivity. So, how can you ensure that a platform can fully benefits developers who are…

I will start this part by narrating through a classic story that I first observed when I entered this industry around 13 years ago. I was working as a network engineer at a system integration company. And a common issue that I encountered was who to blame when an application…

Stop if you’ve experienced this before. You read about Scrum. You decided to attend a workshop about it. You feel inspired. You promoted the idea to your higher ups. You got the buy in. You applied it to your team. 1 year in and you’re left with pile of untouched…

Choosing what to prioritize between developing new feature and fixing technical debt is a common problem that every software developers and product managers are facing on a daily basis. I get asked this question every now and then. It’s a valid question, but in my opinion putting tech debt in…

Few months ago, I asked my Twitter followers, what do they want to know more about product management. Surprisingly, one of the question asked and got likes from others was “What is the difference between project management and product management?”. I assume this is probably caused by the fact that…

One of the reality of a product development is the fact that the shift between project and product is something that happens so frequently. I always imagine product development goes into 2 big activities that happens in a loop: Discover and Deliver. First part plays a big role in determining…