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Segmentation With A Product-Centric Approach to Amplify Growth

As the next generation POS platform, a broad segmentation resulted in adoption and growth challenges. We had built a product that is the fastest, smartest, easiest to use and most flexible to implement. Spread too thin to accelerate In the early days, we targeted restaurants, bars, nightclubs, festivals, events that needed a point of sale […]

Team Topologies and working with Product

Several product practitioners have outlined a range of different views on (Product) team topologies. You’ll find a well written piece here. There are several contributing aspects to it. Listing a few of those below – What is the team responsible for (ownership)– How big can the team to function at the right speed (alignment at […]

Product development donts

Don’t build a product like this…(2/2)

In the previous post, I outlined a part of my innovation journey as a software developer creating a new product. To start with, in the first part, I outlined the context. This was followed by the missteps from conceptualization to a point when I created a gold-plated product solution. In this post, I will layout […]

Broken!

Don’t build a product like this! (1/2)

It was 2006. Working as a software developer in India, I developed software products for mobile devices. Yet I had never interacted with a Product Manager. In fact, I didn’t even know that such a role existed. I was on a journey of innovation to achieve #WorldDomination.Here’s one such experience with innovation. There were so […]

Connectedness for Digital Products

Developing Digital Products – can it be iterative? (Part 4 off 4)

In the first post, we established that digital products (i.e. connected devices) are an intricate part of our everyday life and yet pose significant challenges in development. Three key learnings that contribute to an iterative product development for digital products include rethinking prototyping, platforms choices and connectedness. In order make digital product development more iterative, […]

Platforms for Digital Products

Developing Digital Products – can it be iterative? (Part 3 off 4)

In the first post, we established that digital products (i.e. connected devices) are an intricate part of our everyday life and yet pose significant challenges in development. At the end, I outlined three key learnings along the lines of prototyping, platforms and connectedness. In order to make digital product development more iterative, I elaborated on […]

Prototyping Digital Products

Developing Digital Products – can it be iterative? (Part 2 off 4)

In the previous post, we established that digital products (i.e. connected devices) are an intricate part of our everyday life and yet pose significant challenges in development. At the end, I outlined three key learnings that I re-iterate here. In order to reduce the time to market, to de-risk the investments in early stage of […]

Digital Products | Hardware Product Management

Developing Digital Products – can it be iterative? (Part 1 off 4)

Digital Products a.k.a connected hardware-devices, are an intrinsic part of our everyday lives. Learning tools, productivity and entertainment are a few of the ways we interact with these on an everyday basis. According to IHS Markit, Smart TV Share Jumps to 70 Percent of TV Shipments in 2018 From Less Than 50 Percent in 2015. In September 2017, […]