ICE (Impact, Confidence, Effort) is a great friend to product managers. It helps cut through differing opinions and provides an objective way to order a product roadmap. But, like every framework, ICE has its limitations. Some situations just don’t fit easily into it. 🚀 Moonshot Initiatives (Low Confidence [C in ICE] isn’t
📚🌍🚶‍♂️ A friend recently shared his “2024 in numbers”: * 16 books, ~3400 pages read * 7 countries, 20 cities visited * 1723 km walked * 3 summits hiked Impressive, isn’t it? But being a product manager, I couldn’t stop myself from asking him – “Fantastic. But these are input metrics, where
During my initial years as a Product Manager, I faced a dilemma—should I continue as an Experience PM or shift to a Platform PM role? Since platform roles were fewer (at that time), and I loved working on user-centric work, I continued the path of experience PM. Looking back, there is a
“Indians don’t want to pay for software”. I heard this from a few SaaS entrepreneurs serving the SMB market (especially ones focused on efficiency). They have either shut down or exited the Indian market. They allude to “cultural” reasons (cost-consciousness) as to why their products failed in this market. However, a detailed
On the face of it, B2B and B2C firms’ structures and processes appear completely divergent. When thinking about B2B, one visualizes large sales teams (in suits), dedicated account managers, conferences, customer meetings etc. In the B2C world, we think of scale, branding, mass marketing etc.  The case for confusion: However, looking a
Few posts from experienced PMs assert that product frameworks that one learns during PM prep/interviews are almost useless in the actual job. Is that true? My take: Frameworks are very useful. It is just that many PMs don’t explicitly discuss framework names but still apply the knowledge gained from them at work.
