The Best Thing AI Did: It Broke Product Management
From idea to deployed app in 30 minutes – this isn’t science fiction anymore. The last time I did production code was in 1996. But that may change now. This week, I built a social media advocacy reach calculator using Lovable, an AI-powered development platform. What would have traditionally taken weeks of back-and-forth with engineering, […]
Building for Experience: The Overlooked Discipline in B2B Product Management
Customer experience is a differentiator and PMs are responsible for it Recently, I was teaching a PM class and one of the questions asked was how to manage the product for an already established and mature company. I suggested looking to avenues to grow the product to adjacent areas, capabilities, markets, segments. If you are […]
Should you share your product roadmap?
Pros and cons of sharing product roadmaps publicly and with customers While browsing ClickUp’s website recently, I noticed something intriguing: they share a detailed product roadmap openly for anyone to see. Here it is. This led me to ask: Should you share your roadmap publicly? Let’s first make a distinction. A roadmap is a statement […]
B2B SaaS Product Teams Are Focused on the Wrong Things—and It’s Hurting Growth
Transform your product team from delivery centric approach to revenue centric Today, I want to write about something controversial. B2B SAAS Product management teams often focus on the wrong things: Delivery, Agile, Sprint Planning, Burndown Charts. These are all vital aspects of managing a team, but the truth is, they often distract from what truly […]
Turning around a stalled product launch
How to get your product launch back on track Your product launch is not going anywhere. Your team is busy cranking out code. But you cannot claim it as a success just yet. No one has a clear idea when the product will be ready. There are weekly status reports but management and stakeholders are […]
Don’t do customer interviews, unless..
The right way to do customer discovery and interviews By now you have read 100s of articles and books and blogs about the power of customer discovery and talking to customers. If you are a startup, you are advised to do early discovery and even solicit early customers before you actually have a product. If […]
Avoid the RICE prioritization
RICE can be easily manipulated I dislike RICE. (Not the edible one which I enjoy in almost all cuisines.) I am sure you have heard about this prioritization method and even applied it. Today, I will make the case why you should not use it and what is the alternative. What is RICE? RICE is […]
Lessons Building Products with Limited Resources
How to ensure success in a resource constrained environments I’ve always felt like a bit of an underdog as a product manager. Based in the Bay Area, I’m surrounded by folks working at tech giants like Google, Amazon, Meta, and the like. For a long time, I thought that to truly experience product management, […]
How to incorporate AI in your product roadmap
Incorporate AI in your product, but not for the sake of it. It’s a legit question and every company in the world is scrambling to get AI into their product. If your product is AI first e.g. video generators or image classifications, then you are looking out for the market/segment who will find the […]
Why customer don’t adopt features?
Why don’t users adopt the features you have so painstakingly built for them? One of the most frustrating things about building products is to learn that usage and adoption is low or non existent. There are multiple reasons for that and understanding the root causes is critical before you create a plan of action. A […]
