Product Management

Product Management Principles across industries are the same" – Pandith Jantakahalli, Sr. Product Manager – iPublishCentral. #PNHangout

May 20, 2014

9 Min read

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#PNHangout is an ongoing series where we talk to Product Managers from various companies to understand what drives them, the products they work on and the role they play in defining the products success. We recently had a chance to talk to Pandith Jantakahalli –Senior Product Manager at Impelsys, about his experiences as a Product Manager and his take on the role of a Product Manager...

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Appiterate: Instant publishing & A/B testing on mobile apps using visual editor for iOS and Android apps

By Rajat Harlalka

In #MadeInIndia, Apps

May 8, 2014

8 Min read

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Product management and development teams have been using A/B Testing on the web to optimize the experience for users. However, doing A/B testing on mobile has been a challenge especially because the way native apps are deployed currently: – Native apps are deployed via the marketplaces, making MVP and beta releases very difficult. – The app stores, especially iTunes, has a review...

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PeopleWorks – Selling Thought Leadership

By Chintan Mehta

In Product Management, Startups

April 8, 2014

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I recently visited the office of PeopleWorks to meet Hemant Tathod who Heads the Product Management function. Spin-off from the parent Hemant chronicled the initial journey of the formation of PeopleWorks. It began as a need identified by Mr Ram, President & Executive Director of Crossdomain Solutions who was looking for a solution to cater to existing policies of Crossdomain without...

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Product Management mantras from the 26th Playbook Roundtable

By Rajat Harlalka

In Playbook RoundTable, Product Management

March 20, 2014

7 Min read

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The 26th playbook roundtable was held last week (8th March 2014) at Delhi NCR and brought together over 15 startup and product practitioners to discuss and gain insights on some of the challenging aspects of growth and monetization in product companies. This roundtable was hosted at Eko India Financial Services office in Gurgaon, and was led by Amit Ranjan, Cofounder of Slideshare, and Amit...

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Before you start with Growth Hacking

By Pravin Jhadav

In Growth Hacking, Product Management

January 28, 2014

5 Min read

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Building a product startup is exciting. Most startups look to raise capital early and investors look no other measure but traction to take their bets. This need for traction puts immense pressure on the founding team to grow their startup. That leads to implementing multiple tips and tricks to improve the key product metrics – most importantly to show traction to investors. Founders get into the...

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DNA mysteries of Products and Services

By Seema Joshi

In Eco-system, Product Management, ProductNation

December 18, 2013

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It has been an interesting coincidence on the last few occasions in different discussions and industry forums I participated in, they have attracted a good amount of the classic “Products and Services” in IT deliberation. As such, this is not a new debate. It is common to see patrons from the products world root for it by generating IP and for the services gurus illustrate how they are able to...

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Startups and Product Managers

By Asif Ali

In Product Management

December 14, 2013

3 Min read

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Who is a product manager and what does a typical development cycle with a product manager look like? Product managers are often the most overlooked job descriptions in startups. The “let’s hack together” mindset is great but might not scale after a certain point. It becomes imperative that someone is incharge of defining the “what to build” part of the problem extremely well, keeping the...

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What Makes a Good Product Manager: Lessons from Doers

By Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy

In Product Management, Product Manager, Startups

November 19, 2013

4 Min read

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For solo product entrepreneurs and product teams that are caught in a vicious cycle of build, release, build release, we bring some insights from “doers” that will help them differentiate through the demanding skills of product development. Deep Nishar, who leads product management at LinkedIn, had said sometime ago that a product manager needs brain of an engineer, heart of a designer and speech...

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“We think more like Product Designers, and less like Product Managers” – Bharath Mohan, Pugmarks.me #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #MadeInIndia, #PNHangout, Product Manager, ProductNation, Social Media, Startups

October 11, 2013

5 Min read

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(This passage is a summary of the conversation with Bharath Mohan. The audio transcript can be found here.) Adopters of any new innovation or idea can be categorized as innovators (2.5%), early adopters (13.5%), early majority (34%), late majority (34%) and laggards (16%), based on a mathematical Bell curve put forth by Everett Rogers in his book titled “Diffusions of Innovations”. The book...

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The Atypical Product Manager – Nishant Pandey, Naukri.com #PNHangout

By Akash Jain

In #PNHangout, Product Management, Product Manager

September 13, 2013

6 Min read

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Every Byte Counts Earlier I worked as a field engineer in Schlumberger, providing Drilling Services. Drilling is a very high tech, and arduous task; whether it’s on land, on a river, on deep waters. My job on any rig was to determine the direction of the oil well and properties of the rocks we burst through – its density, its resistivity, its shear strength, its porosity. We did this via...

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