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Surya Suravarapu

Surya Suravarapu

Product Strategy: Avoid These 6 Pitfalls While Defining It

Lofty product strategy pitches buzzwordy with dense diagrams have become a norm. There’s no issue with them, per se, but most of them are…

Apr 25, 2022

Product Strategy: Avoid These 6 Pitfalls While Defining It

Apr 25, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Is a programmer’s itch more important than the customer’s needs?

Does the desire to build cool new things override the customer needs? In other words, a programmer’s itch and urge to scratch it is crucial…

Jan 25, 2022

Is a programmer’s itch more important than the customer’s needs?

Jan 25, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Being cognizant of your confirmation bias in product discovery

Confirmation bias in product discovery is prevalent. Something convinced you, and now you’re on a mission to prove it everywhere. That…

Jan 18, 2022

Being cognizant of your confirmation bias in product discovery

Jan 18, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Three pillars of building trust in a team setting

Nothing else matters if your team members are not trusting you. It goes without saying, building trust is essential in every facet of our…

Jan 14, 2022

Jan 14, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?

Product Owner is an interesting name for a product person's role in an agile setting (scrum). Is it different from Product Manager? And…

Jan 13, 2022

Jan 13, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Finding your leverage and honing it for professional success

Your professional success is proportional to the leverage you have. How much of that do you have? But what is leverage? The dictionary…

Jan 12, 2022

Jan 12, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Product strategy — understand it to refine or redefine

It’s not unusual to feel that you are not making an impact as a Product Manager now and then. If you never felt that way, you are either a…

Jan 11, 2022

Jan 11, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Chasing opportunities when you are resource-constrained

Depending on the stage of the company, you will see executive leadership chasing way too many opportunities (at least that’s your…

Jan 10, 2022

Jan 10, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Agility as a mindset over methods and terminology

Stories, story points, acceptance criteria, stand-up, sprint, retrospective … Keep going. You will soon cover several key terms of modern…

Jan 7, 2022

Agility as a mindset over methods and terminology

Jan 7, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Skip Product Discovery at your peril

The all-important product discovery phase — don’t skip it. It’s a critical phase before you jump in and build the next great feature. A…

Jan 6, 2022

Jan 6, 2022

Surya Suravarapu

Surya Suravarapu

Areas of expertise: product, strategy, and technology | Mode: Learn, write/apply, and learn (in a loop) | Writes here: https://suryas.org

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