Product <> Software.
A Thread.
Software (Wikipedia): A collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work
Product (Wikipedia) - An object or system made available for consumer use; it is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy the desire or need of a customer
Feb 10, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
76% people say that meetings hurt their productivity.
Some notes on making internal meetings more productive (1/n)
Meetings hurt productivity but are a necessary evil. Some PMs thrive on getting work done in them, devs feel it breaks their rhythm & are unnecessary, business folks believe that meetings = work. Sharing few 'hacks' that helped me manage my day better with flurry of meetings -
Oct 21, 2019 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Some interesting infographics from e-conomy SEA 2019 report by @Google@Temasek and @BainandCompany
- 570 million people 🇮🇩🇵🇭🇹🇭🇻🇳🇸🇬🇲🇾🇰🇭🇱🇦🇵🇬
- Economic growth ~5% ⚡️ in last 5 years (3% global)
- 360 million internet users🌏 (added 100 million in last 4 years)
Jul 16, 2019 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Some notes of product manager hiring:
1. Similar industry experience:
If you are too rigid on hiring PMs who’ve done same Work in past, Beware! She may get to delivery fast but doesn’t give any guarantee that she will fix the unknown product problems of growth, retention and user behaviour etc for your setup.
May 30, 2019 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
I spent around 15 hrs / day for most of May in a fancy hospital because of my father’s emergency neurosurgery. Thanks to the doctors & the staff of this hospital, my father lives. 🙏
But this made me realise how much our hospitals need to fix. My observations - (1/n)
They do really responsible, complicated and important work like neurosurgery which changes the world. Can’t thank them enough. 🙌
Now, on to things that are broken and how they need to change like rest of the world is changing (2/n)
Apr 17, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Some notes on product prioritisation
Product prioritisation in not a just a product function activity. By nature of their role, PMs do facilitate prioritisation but its much more than putting high medium low in an excel sheet of features (or Trello or asana or aha or jira or basecamp or <Insert tool you use>
