Before knowing how to build a minimum viable product (MVP), let's understand why to build an MVP? What if a product is not accepted by the customers after 2 years of development efforts? What if a product fails in the market after spending lot of time, efforts and money? What if a competitor launched similar ...
How to build an effective business case for product
What is business case? Why should it get created? Does anyone do the business for lose? No, Does any business get started without knowing the profit margins and revenue? No. So, to build a profitable business we need a preliminary analysis. The outcome of preliminary analysis is business case. Business case is a set of elements ...
How to switch from testing to product management
Switching the career from the current path indicates leaving the comfort zone, it requires new learning and new way of thinking. How to switch from software testing to product management? Testing is verifying the functionality per expectation. It indicates that the testing professionals are testing the functionality per other's expectation, they could be from product ...
How to establish a startup – Part2
Research & planning A scientist would do research to invent something new/unique in his lab. It could be a problem solver but may not be a commercial success because majority of their time and efforts invest in product invention not on the commercialization. However, a typical entrepreneur should first invest his time, efforts, and money to ...
How to establish a startup – Part1
Starting up is setting up something from scratch. In English language, it is a verb. In life, it is an action. Over a period of time it turns as noun called 'startup' but it has numerous actions involved with it. Before getting into the topic one should understand the difference between startup and business, entrepreneur ...
The coordination between product manager and teams
Questions that product manager should ask for all teams: Numerous responsibilities keep the product manager confused, specially the coordination between teams like, sales, engineering, leadership, support, and customers, tedious to be organized and confused to get prioritized. Product manager should have clarity about the topic to be discussed and the agenda should be clear enough ...
Importance of product grooming and planning
Grooming is mentoring about a topic/subject. Product grooming is mentoring about the features of the product to be developed. Engineering team knows how to develop, but product manager should groom them why to develop? and What to develop? Product grooming plays vital role in shaping up the product per expectation. Product grooming is organized ...