(Originally written in 2020) Ever since I got the opportunity to work as a Product Owner, I was thinking about a certification which could give my career a boost and at the same time, I can learn the nuances of product ownership. It was late November 2019 when I seriously started thinking about appearing in…

“Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.”: – Will Hutton According to Dan Brown – There are users — the people who will use your product. There are collaborators — the people with whom you will build, market and sell the product. And then there are stakeholders — the people who perhaps don’t have a clear role, but do have an interest…

A customer journey map is a tool that illustrates the various stages a customer goes through while interacting with a product or service. It provides an overview of a customer’s experience with your brand, starting from the initial interaction and progressing towards a potential long-term relationship. The aim of a customer journey map is to…

During the 2020 pandemic, I tried my hands at a couple of product owner certifications. The intent was to learn and see whether these certifications add any value to your day job? The certification pattern is similar to the PSPO-1 (product owner basic certification), in order to pass you need a minimum of 85%. The difference…

We know that product backlog is the single source of truth for any development work. A product backlog is a living document and it keeps on getting refined over the life cycle of the product. At any point in time product backlog contains new features, bugs, test requirements etc. In between the sprints, the product…

As an Agile practitioner, it’s easy to get confused when one hears the terms Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done. I am often being asked at times what’s the difference between the two? Can they be used interchangeably? Most of us get it wrong. Let’s figure it out. Definition of Done (DoD): According to the…

A room without books is like a body without a soul When I started my journey, my focus was solely on the Scrum product owner role and hence my recommendations include books on Agile and Scrum. Gradually I moved towards the customer, product discovery, product-market fit, scaling of products, product leadership and so on. It is very…

India Journey so far: Problem Statement: Overcome the competition and ensure a steady user growth resulting in higher profits for Netflix India. Our Goals: Come up with three Product solutions to drive user growth Provide wireframes and explain the solutions in detail Align metrics for the above solutions Publish a press release announcing the launch…

Hope is not a strategy Ever since Google managed to successfully run its complex platforms through the SRE model, most of the big firms across the globe tried to adopt the model in some way or another. Before we dive a little deeper into the subject let’s understand what SRE stands for? It’s an abbreviation…