An awful lot of effort is going these days into boosting product teams’ productivity: getting them to burn those story points faster, deliver the planned scope in every sprint and cycle, and generally ship more stuff, faster. The term “development velocity” is often thrown around by executives, but what they’re actually aiming for is upping … Stop Obsessing Over Development Velocity, Focus on This Instead

Why do smart product teams often build products with mediocre or no impact? Often, the answer is found in the discipline with which a product team measures the product.

A non-exhaustive list of common mistakes in defining metrics

The dirty secret of Silicon Valley is that most great product teams follow a system that resembles waterfall (gasp!) to launch new innovative features/products repeatably. The system starts with high conviction based on judgment, intuition, and instinct rather than relying on iterative customer feedback to build conviction over time.

I’ve just embarked on my role as an Innovation Product Manager at UST Global, effectively making it my 3rd attempt at hustling in the world of New Product Development. Having spent the last 7 years putting on a variety of hats across multiple projects, my journey has been nothing short of exciting.

We need more people product managers.

5 simple practices that can yield extraordinary results

In every product organization there are always a lot more things in your backlog than you can actually do. If not, something is wrong!

The main goal of this tutorial is to introduce learners to the most important concept in any problem-solving situation - identification of the true problem.

How to ensure your products will deliver value for your customer and business

I joined Pratilipi in April as a Product Designer, when COVID-19 had just broken out. Read on, as I share my experiences as a Product Designer and how I transitioned to an APM role in 6 months.

There are several types of software users in a B2B environment, at every level of seniority — from C-level executives to data entry operators — who each have very different roles in their organizations. There is no disputing that.

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When you have a tough business problem to solve, you likely bring it to a group. After all, more minds are better than one, right? Not necessarily. Larger pools of knowledge are by no means a guarantee of better outcomes. Because of an over-reliance on hierarchy, an instinct to prevent dissent, and a desire to preserve harmony, many groups fall into groupthink.