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What makes a PRD actually useful vs just ceremonial?
I've seen PRDs that teams actually reference daily and PRDs that die in Confluence the moment they're published.
mid-pm building b2b·17 May·4 responsesread thread →Applying jobs-to-be-done to Zepto's 10-minute delivery
Assignment: pick a product you use daily and identify the job-to-be-done that the existing alternatives were failing at.
pm aspirant, mumbai·17 May·1 responseread thread →Metrics are flat for 3 months. When do you pivot vs push through?
We launched a B2B feature (automated invoice reconciliation) 3 months ago. Adoption is flat — 12% of target accounts activated, but activation-to-retention is actually strong (68%…
senior pm, b2b fintech·17 May·1 responseread thread →Roast this OKR set for a payments product
Here are the OKRs I am presenting to my VP next week for our payments product (UPI-based, 2M monthly transactions): Objective: Increase payment success rate and reduce user…
payments pm, bangalore·17 May·1 responseread thread →Should PMs create wireframes, or does it constrain the UX designer?
As product managers we are responsible for the overall solution and it is natural to feel the urge to control every aspect of it.
rohitshukla·17 May·2 responsesread thread →What metrics actually matter for consumer IoT products?
There are a lot of key metrics defined for consumer mobile and web products. Consumer IoT products are a combination of digital and physical products.
rohanaranha·17 May·2 responsesread thread →How do PMs stay relevant when everything changes fast?
With technology accelerating and innovation in each space changing so fast, how do you stay relevant?
talvinder·17 May·3 responsesread thread →Should PMs learn to code, or is it a distraction from the actual job?
Every PM newsletter says "learn SQL at minimum." Senior PMs at my company (Series C fintech, 400 people) say the opposite — that the best PMs they have seen are the ones who never…
riya, pm at a series c fintech·17 May·0 responsesread thread →your ceo wants to launch an unfinished feature before investor demo
what would you do here?
test·13 May·1 responseread thread →Discuss: Netflix made the unpopular pricing call legible
Signal: Netflix made the unpopular pricing call legible What happened: Netflix expanded paid sharing, asking households outside the account owner’s home to pay rather than freely…
Sivasurya·26d ago·1 responseread thread →PM interview Q1 — improve one feature in the Amazon app
Product Improvement: Describe one feature that you would like to improve in the Amazon app.
suhasmotwani90·17 May·5 responsesread thread →Which viral loop to grow a community?
To build this community, I want to invite product managers from world over slowly.
talvinder·17 May·4 responsesread thread →PM interview Q2 — key metric dropped 80%
You are the PM for a streaming video service. You come into the office and see that one key metric has dropped by 80%. What will you do?
suhasmotwani90·17 May·3 responsesread thread →New e-commerce platform — Wish
Recently, I came across a new product called Wish. It is an e-commerce platform marketed as a marketplace for discounted items targeted towards customers who are not…
primukh26·17 May·2 responsesread thread →Discuss: Leaders confuse AI access with true adoption, risking trust and value
Signal: Leaders confuse AI access with true adoption, risking trust and value What happened: Many companies push AI tool usage top-down without redesigning workflows or providing…
Manual Test User·19 Jul·1 responseread thread →Gauging market potential without a customer survey
How would you gauge the market potential of a new product, without a customer survey?
primukh26·17 May·1 responseread thread →Need inputs on product roadmap — healthcare posture product
Building a product roadmap for a healthcare product that analyses your posture and drops you a notification or helps you correct when you go beyond the threshold.
suhasmotwani90·17 May·1 responseread thread →User flow for user registration by 3rd party
I am building a product where we register the user on his behalf and would send him his profile link.
rohanaranha·17 May·1 responseread thread →Authorize payment first — conversion benefits?
Paypal has two options: (1) Paypal express where user authorizes the payment first then fills shipping details, and (2) Paypal standard where user fills shipping details first…
talvinder·17 May·0 responsesread thread →stakeholder approved the spec — now wants to reopen everything in week 6
// what would you do here?
pragmatic leaders·17 May·0 responsesread thread →user research says one thing — your biggest customer says another
// what would you do here?
pragmatic leaders·17 May·0 responsesread thread →your launch is in three days — qa found a bug in a non-critical path
// what would you do here?
pragmatic leaders·17 May·0 responsesread thread →you inherited a roadmap you disagree with — leadership expects you to execute
// what would you do here?
pragmatic leaders·17 May·0 responsesread thread →design and eng are deadlocked — you need to ship in two weeks
// what would you do here?
pragmatic leaders·17 May·0 responsesread thread →the data says ship — your gut says no
// what would you do here?
pragmatic leaders·17 May·0 responsesread thread →vp changed the OKR mid-quarter and your team is demoralized
// what would you do here?
pragmatic leaders·17 May·0 responsesread thread →your top engineer wants to leave — you found out via slack
// what would you do here?
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