This is a very common question I’ve encountered from Product managers who don’t have a data background, but want to make data-driven decisions. The most common answers I’ve heard to this question is — well, you’ve got to learn SQL — and that’s not the full truth, in my opinion. …

A five-step guide to use Design Strategy for API design — Introducing Design Strategy Design Thinking, as we know, is a methodology that was developed by IDEO[1] for creative problem solving. The core principle behind Design Thinking is to be empathetic with the customer, identify their pain points, their journey through the product, their opportunities and needs, and get to a…

Managing data when there’s already a data management system to manage is relatively easier, and I wrote about some ways to tackle that problem as a Product Manager who takes it on here. However, ideating from scratch on data management, as a PM for infrastructure or platform, is a little…

I wrote about how being a Product Manager for a data product is different than being a Product Manager for data here. One of the questions I encounter more frequently from PMs managing data is about frameworks and metrics that we could use to efficiently track and manage all of…

On some of the product management groups and in online conversations, I have seen the term Data Product Manager become more popular in the past couple years. Of course, the functions of a data PM existed even more the buzzword did, but just like every other fancy buzzword that beefs…