If you are from a non CS background, but are venturing into technical product management you might find it overwhelming to communicate with your engineers. Here’s a quick list of tech jargon that makes it easy to get an undetstanding of how the tech side of things work. API - Application Programming Interface. All modern apps backend is created using APIs so it’s easy for one or more applications to talk with each other....
There are many templates and formats people follow while writing a PRD (product requirement document), based on the industry or the market their product is catering towards. Download this SaaS PRD template, here: SaaS PRD template - Google Docs The template has all the sections and placeholder texts helping you understand what each section is and how it has to be filled. Here’s a good article which in which Manas explains how he formulates the PRD....
Good product managers are more of a generalists than specialists in any organisation. Right from idea brainstorming and validation to getting the final feature shipped with good UX and KPIs monitored after launch, a product manager has her finger prints all over. While lot of PM talk revolves around the good parts, there are some grunt tasks that a product manager has do to get their feature successful. Let’s look at some of the less exciting / celebrated tasks of a product manager....