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51 days 50 nights in London
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 2022 was the year of migration. The family relocated to the United Kingdom by the end of the year, around Christmas. We knew the perks and pitfalls of moving during the winter season. While we managed to see the Christmas and new year…
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Scrum Product Owner Certification (PSPO-1): Handy Passing Tips
(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…
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How to manage Stakeholders in the context of Scrum
“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…
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A primer to Customer Journey Mapping
A customer journey map is a visualisation of the phases a customer goes through when engaging with a product or service. It helps to tell the story of a customer’s experience with your brand from original engagement and into hopefully a long-term relationship. Almost any experience can be mapped, including the following examples: The online…
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Scrum Product Owner (PSPO-A) Exam – A Guide
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…
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Product Prioritization Frameworks
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…
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Acceptance Criteria Vs Definition of Done
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…
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Must-Read Product Management Books
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…
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Netflix India Case Study
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…
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SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
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…
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Value Proposition Canvas
The Value Proposition Canvas is a tool which can help ensure that a product or service is positioned around what the customer values and needs. The Value Proposition Canvas was initially developed by Dr Alexander Osterwalder as a framework to ensure that there is a fit between the product and market. It was originated from Business…
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FARMRISE Case Study – Providing Argonomic Solutions To Farmers
More than 85% of the farmers own farmlands below 2 hectares and have zero access to educational, scientific information. However, a remarkable 70% of these farmers now own mobile phones and can easily make informed operating and financial decisions with the help of the Farmrise app. The app successfully provides solutions to everyday farming challenges…
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Why Scrum Product Owner certifications are not worth your time?
Certification – the action or process of providing someone or something with an official document attesting to a status or level of achievement. Aspiring product owners/managers often are in a dilemma as to whether they should go for a Scrum product owner certification or not. If yes, then which one? As the market is flooded…
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Business travel in the post Covid world
While business travel was down by 90% at the height of the pandemic, some companies saw business travel activity return to about 80% of pre-pandemic levels when restrictions eased over the summer (McKinsey) Zoom At its peak, the firm counted more than 300 million daily participants in virtual meetings, while paying customers have more than…
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Random Thoughts – August 2020
Cognitive Bias As a product owner, are your decisions driven or affected by Cognitive bias? “A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own “subjective reality” from their perception of the input.” With years of experience there are beliefs and patterns that are stored in…
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Facilitating Sprint Retrospectives
A good Scrum Master helps the team identify improvements. Great Scrum Masters encourage their teams to be ADAPTIVE – George watts As Agile organisations, teams and team members, we must constantly question what could be better to continually improve. Agile retrospectives are an opportunity to inspect, adapt and improve our way of working. This article…
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