A recent podcast on Lenny Rachitsky’s show rekindled some thoughts on roadmapping I’ve had for a long while about how complex product processes such as roadmapping can be easily corrupted. One common culprit is “artifact escalation” i.e …

Been thinking about customer insight velocity a lot recently. How do you optimize to have high velocity + high quantity customer insights funneling to inform product decision making. Note: I define a strong insights funnel as “deliberate not random” ; “consistent and not sporadic” ; “atomic and not overhead” ; …

Context switching is a muscle that PMs should try and build with deliberate practice. Why? Every single day, they’re dealing with 4 big S’s : Shaping, Shipping , Syncing and Supporting. 1️⃣ They’re shaping the future version of their products. They’re assimilating information around goals, markets, competition, customer needs and…

I’ve been trying to understand what makes some teams work well together over long runs. There’s hundreds of parameters that have been studied, but I came across the concept of cohesion in the context of military performance and it made sense to me. Team cohesion — how well can teams…

As part of a rapidly moving company, we are shipping and scaling rapidly. A good byproduct is the exponential growth in the number of requests we need to deal with. Since it’s mentally and physically demanding to keep up with everything, we need to deny many requests. Personally, I know…

This is my second write up in the Series on speed (link). I am using this series to simply highlight tactics and techniques how PMs can improve their pace to ship faster. Disclaimer: I am not talking about validation of assumptions, building for the right outcomes etc. In this post…

A few months back I had started dabbling with what influences the quality of outcomes from product managers. I narrowed it down to two key factors : Strength of Assumptions * Strength of Execution = Quality of Outcomes You can read more about it here. There’s much more to be…

This post is a continuation of https://adityarsmishra.medium.com/taming-your-assumptions-mammoth-c6fe403d4d36 The Noise Factor in Product signals Lets revisit our signal equation Signal-Final= {M0*S0 + M1*S1 + M2*S2 …. } Every signal inherently has a noise component which distorts and changes how these signals reach you. …

Every crisis and/or Macro trend brings to light new opportunities that give exponential rise to a few outlier companies. The pandemic for example saw the rise of great companies across tele-health, payments, collaboration etc. to newer heights. This happens because each mega event has the power and influence to accelerate…