Note on hypothesis driven development — Product innovation is a consequence of an identified customer pain point. Conversion of customer pain points into a product roadmap and subsequently into the feature backlog is central to product management. Identification of customer pain points results in a set of outcomes which in turn drives feature roadmap. …

Products and platforms have a very unique relationship. On one hand platforms support development of products while on the other products often generalize overtime to become platforms — a chicken and egg situation. Recently, while helping a friend with a project proposal I was faced with an unusual connundrum, would…

For the better part of 15+ years of my career, I have been part of teams that form the foundational components of the larger products or services. In many organizations such foundational teams are commonly called as “core”. A typical product stack (exhibit 1) has end users working with products…

The Airbnb(s) and Uber(s) of today allow users to monetize their assets by leasing them out to other users. These assets range from real-estate, to ride shares, to toys, and the list goes on. There has been an explosion of businesses developed in the “sharing economy” space, some of which…

Serverless computing is gaining rapid adoption and is the next stage in the evolution of cloud computing. The cost benefit provided by serverless computing by paying per function invocation and the operational efficiency brought by delegating the maintenance of the underlyting infrastructure is indeed very attractive. However serverless brings more…