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One of the things a Product Manager will be involved in at some point in their career is Naming a product they are working on. Its quite a responsibility, especially if you’ve never “named” anything before.

Sometimes people compare “naming” a product to finding a name for your babies. The first problem with that comparative is not only that Not everyone has kids, but also that your product is not your baby. …

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This is a follow-up to my previous post on AB tests. Since that post, I have received quite a few questions about AB Tests — but there was one question that I received from many readers.

How many samples do we need to reach Statistical Significance? What’s the intuition?

For Product Managers, this question in many ways is the most important one when testing. Inadequate sample sizes can really throw off the results of a test and…

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When building products everyone has an opinion.

“Change this button to green and people will buy more”

“Let’s change this banner image to something else and we will see more signups”.

And while opinions galore, A/B testing is a quick and easy way to test them and see if they really hold water. Product Managers love it.

Here’s what typically goes on:

1. You have a hypothesis — say about your landing page conversions: “Changing this landing…

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As a new Product Manager, one of the hardest things for me used to be saying “No” to things. I’ve always found it extremely difficult, and after so many years, sometimes still do.

Back in the day, when I tried to reason why this is so, I generally attributed it to my Indian upbringing — where saying NO is generally considered rude and sometimes downright hostile.

But then as I traveled, studied, made friends, and worked across…

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At some point in your respective product management journeys, you’ll most likely come across the term “working backwards”. Amazon’s famous Product Management philosophy.

Working Backwards posits that when thinking about what product to develop — one must work backward from the customer, rather than starting with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers onto it. If you are building products in 2021, this is textbook advice.

I’ve never worked for Amazon, but based on…

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I first stumbled upon blockchains and cryptocurrencies in 2015 and it immediately piqued my interest. What sorcery was this thing called Bitcoin? why was it getting so much press? Why did it have any value at all?

As I entered the dark crypto world — I met some otherwise rational people going crazy about anything that had to do with blockchains and bitcoins. They talked endlessly and fanatically about mining, rigs, GPUs, blockchain apps, decentralization etc. I…

The past few months have been pretty busy at work. We’ve started an exercise where we are evaluating a product — currently manufactured in our European & North American factories — to be manufactured in our Asian factories to serve the regional markets.

There have been several meetings, planning sessions, and discussions to plan every aspect of the manufacturing move. For instance, How many units might we sell out of this factory? How long will zero to starting up production take? What the supply chain/sourcing strategy will look like? And more.

This has taken the bulk of my brain cycles…

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If you ever work for a large corporation with complicated matrixed org structures, you’ll broadly find two types of people

Type 1: People that wait for instructions, and wait for things to happen — They’ll tell you all the reasons why something cannot be done

Type 2: People who want to make things happen, try different things, find out all the ways how something can…