Vikrama Dhiman | product manager | agile coach | avid reader
I write about technology products, product management, startups, lifestyle trends and books.
Category Product Management
Why do many people who work long hours still run behind their schedule? Work fills the time available. The first few items can take the majority of the time, leaving...
A skill I learned late was defining a good North Star. I see product makers pick simplistic North Star Metrics and not be able to articulate what even is a...
13 years back (it is 12 January 2022 today) I was working on an online learning product where we had a particularly contentious product decision. When teachers conducted a public...
The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has competition. Minimum Usable Product (MUP), Minimum Marketable Product (MMP), Minimum Loveable Product (ML) are all knocking on the doors. Professionals are divided on whether...
Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As Peter Drucker writes in his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, “The best, and perhaps the only, way to avoid killing off the new…is to set up the innovative project from...
Product Market Fit is there science behind this voodoo artform? Apparently, there is. In this talk, I try and decipher frameworks and thinking process behind Product Market Fit.
Recently, I spoke about ‘What is Product Strategy’ with The Product Folks. They’ve uploaded the video to YouTube. Click here to watch the video (not behind a Paywall yet)!
Most software engineers, product designers, and product managers have a strong desire to iterate to perfection, often clashing with other obvious benefits like urgent business priorities like a new product...
Over the past few months, I have been receiving a steady stream of messages from business analysts, developers, product consultants, sales professionals asking for advice on how to transition to...
Category Product Development
Most software engineers, product designers, and product managers have a strong desire to iterate to perfection, often clashing with other obvious benefits like urgent business priorities like a new product...
Category Resources
I created this page to compile good resources I come across for Experimentation - infra, analysis, speed, culture and more. I hope it is useful for you too.
Category Books
According to conventional wisdom, highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. If we want to succeed, we need a combination of hard work, talent, and...
As Peter Drucker writes in his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, “The best, and perhaps the only, way to avoid killing off the new…is to set up the innovative project from...
The book has secrets of studying smart, and not just six - there are several. Some of those secrets are well known (like studying Math by reading it is like learning swimming...
The quality of intuition lies in the intelligence of the unconscious: the ability to know without thinking which rule to rely in which situation. Gut Feelings - The Intelligence of the Unconscious...
“From Inc.com’s most popular columnist, a counterintuitive–but highly practical–guide to finding and maintaining the motivation to achieve great things.” With a blurb like that, this book by Jeff Haden seemed...
In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached...
Terrible things get replaced, but mediocre things stick around. Horrible performance generates action, but average performance generates complacency.
Category Influence
In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached...
Terrible things get replaced, but mediocre things stick around. Horrible performance generates action, but average performance generates complacency.
Category Book Reviews
According to conventional wisdom, highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. If we want to succeed, we need a combination of hard work, talent, and...
As Peter Drucker writes in his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, “The best, and perhaps the only, way to avoid killing off the new…is to set up the innovative project from...
The book has secrets of studying smart, and not just six - there are several. Some of those secrets are well known (like studying Math by reading it is like learning swimming...
The quality of intuition lies in the intelligence of the unconscious: the ability to know without thinking which rule to rely in which situation. Gut Feelings - The Intelligence of the Unconscious...
In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached...
Terrible things get replaced, but mediocre things stick around. Horrible performance generates action, but average performance generates complacency.
Category Videos
Product Market Fit is there science behind this voodoo artform? Apparently, there is. In this talk, I try and decipher frameworks and thinking process behind Product Market Fit.
Recently, I spoke about ‘What is Product Strategy’ with The Product Folks. They’ve uploaded the video to YouTube. Click here to watch the video (not behind a Paywall yet)!
Category Speaking
Product Market Fit is there science behind this voodoo artform? Apparently, there is. In this talk, I try and decipher frameworks and thinking process behind Product Market Fit.
Recently, I spoke about ‘What is Product Strategy’ with The Product Folks. They’ve uploaded the video to YouTube. Click here to watch the video (not behind a Paywall yet)!
Category Book Summaries
“From Inc.com’s most popular columnist, a counterintuitive–but highly practical–guide to finding and maintaining the motivation to achieve great things.” With a blurb like that, this book by Jeff Haden seemed...
Category Product Strategy
Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As Peter Drucker writes in his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship, “The best, and perhaps the only, way to avoid killing off the new…is to set up the innovative project from...
Product Market Fit is there science behind this voodoo artform? Apparently, there is. In this talk, I try and decipher frameworks and thinking process behind Product Market Fit.
Category Decision Making
The quality of intuition lies in the intelligence of the unconscious: the ability to know without thinking which rule to rely in which situation. Gut Feelings - The Intelligence of the Unconscious...
Category Startups
Why do many people who work long hours still run behind their schedule? Work fills the time available. The first few items can take the majority of the time, leaving...
A skill I learned late was defining a good North Star. I see product makers pick simplistic North Star Metrics and not be able to articulate what even is a...
13 years back (it is 12 January 2022 today) I was working on an online learning product where we had a particularly contentious product decision. When teachers conducted a public...
The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has competition. Minimum Usable Product (MUP), Minimum Marketable Product (MMP), Minimum Loveable Product (ML) are all knocking on the doors. Professionals are divided on whether...
Deep Kalra is an Indian businessman who is the founder and group CEO of MakeMyTrip, an Indian online travel company. He is one of the most recognised Business Leaders in...
