Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary provides the following as the essential meaning of the word design to plan and make decisions about to plan and make something for a specific use or purpose to think of; to plan in your mind When people talk about ‘design’ in product management, most of them…

Technical debt is a term popularized in software development that refers to the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy fix in the present instead of using a better approach which may take more resources (time and money). Things are never ideal because organizations do not sit…

A decade has passed and I have experienced hundreds of interviews, some as an interviewer and some as an interviewee. There are both pleasant and horrific memories! A basic understanding of English allows one to interpret the literal meaning of interview. It is a mutual exchange of views. It all…

Organizations may call themselves matrix type. They may say that employees can directly communicate with the CEO, etc. I have realized this is more of a myth than a fact. I am not sure why people say things that they do not mean! Hierarchical organizations somehow gained a negative connotation…

In this article, I will explain the concept of feature toggles as I have understood and practiced them. Feature toggles, also referred to as feature flags or switches sometimes is a technique employed in software development to provide alternate paths without needing to maintain multiple branches in source code. There…

Agile nowadays is a fashionable term just like artificial intelligence and machine learning. Every organization wants to use these words to describe themselves or their products. But, can an organization become agile just because it describes itself as agile? I don’t think so! Being a certified scrum master myself and…

Google touches the lives of so many people around the world everyday. That is what makes it the most successful companies. …