If there was one epiphany that I had recently then it is the fact that Product Managers are subjects of an elaborate network of Chinese whispers that we need to be conscious about. The Actual Incident One of our technical product specialists had recently made a post on an internal forum tagging me…

The following piece was originally written on 6 July 2012 when I was working on tourmyapp.com a lot have changed over the last 6 years yet some of the things that I had written on can still be pondered upon. (I have edited the version for the current context) One…

Denial “No way am I going to build that feature. Wait that is not even a valid requirement. No one wants it that way. Things as it is are just fine.” Anger “This feature is just not worth it. I am wasting my valuable time building something that no would…

I have had a nagging itch that i have not managed to put in words about the “Simple” School of Design. I think, I might finally be up to something here. The simple school of design goes on the tenet that Simple things should be simple, Complex things should be…

Over the last several months I have been working on several Product Features pertaining to KiSSFLOW . One of the many questions that have been intriguing me is “What constitutes a good Feature Specification?”. Form Follows Function I had tried several mediums to communicate Feature Specifications, including Presentation Slides, Detailed Written Documents, Key-Point…

There are many times as both a SaaS producteer and marketeer I have heard Sales complain that the quality of leads that are generated are really poor and they are not able to do much with the leads that are generated. Most people, sales champs, marketeers or producteers, however, are…

I am the guiltiest person when it comes to disturbing my boss for these quick one minute chat sessions. And as in any given situation one minute is really not one minute. Ever. These ‘quick chats’ are probably the most biggest productivity killers i can think of. I know this…

Let me tell you a story. Jill’s birthday was around the corner. Her friend Thomas was reminded of it thanks to a calender alert and he wanted to do something for her. He called up their mutual friend Monica and Monica immediately decided to bake a cake for Jill. There…

Not a long time ago i was a programmer . I loved the code i wrote and found thrills in seeing the lines of code I wrote translate into a product that people enjoyed using. A little over a year ago I was given a chance to change the career…