Dear Product Manager, start from the experience, not the tech

Coming from an engineering background, I spent most of my first years as a bumbling PM championing the building of some core tech, then hope we can put an effective customer experience around it. Then I came across this…

And now, my watch has ended. Thank you Interswitch.

When I joined Interswitch (the first coming) in 2006, I was a guy with an objective. I felt “the internet” was coming to Nigeria and I wanted to be on the forefront of creating services that fit very well with the coming wave. I dare say…

This tech talent exodus from Nigeria, how we go do?

In the last 8 months or so, I think I may have heard more than a few rumours/reports of Nigerian developers, designers and other tech talent moving to Europe and the middle east. Now, it’s hitting closer to home. Few of my colleagues have…

Dear Product Manager, here’s a possible lesson in business development…

If you are in the kind of industry where you create a product that requires multiple players in your value chain to adopt it at once to be valuable, the business development or sales/convincing process can…

Are you a pipe, a tap or the water corporation?

I think all businesses (and products) fit into one of these three buckets.

The water corporation.

A pipe.

A tap.

Dear Product Manager, a strong vision is the real core of the product

The paramount skill a PM needs is the ability to influence people. Talk people into jumping off a cliff on your behalf. To commit long hours to an idea or initiative that may or may not work. And when it…

Dear Product Manager, here’s a tip for getting buy-in for your product design proposal

Here’s a story from my life as an overzealous Product Manager.

Once upon a time, we had an idea for a product extension. This extension required for a…

Dear Product Manager, you can’t avoid doing rogue projects.

Sigh… Leading the team to do things you were explicitly told not to do.

If you’ve been a PM long enough, then you would have been at this crossroads before. You are absolutely convinced about…

Successful incumbent struggling to innovate? Here’s a proposal for you to consider.

You know how… when you were 21, you were not afraid to pack a bag and move to another city to pursue an opportunity you were not quite sure of? But now that you are (maybe) older, you are…