As an E-learning product manager focusing on developing digital platforms to deliver staff training and personal development application, my day-to-day work involves requirements discussion with developers, testing/feedback session and engagement with key product stakeholders (mainly product owner and sponsor). In…
Project Management
How to Write a Great Project Proposal
A great project proposal outlines every core aspect that project stakeholders should know to initiate the project to solve a particular business problem. Service providers will need to demonstrate their competences in understanding client’s business challenges as well as organisation…
Four Business Analysis Techniques I Always Use in my Project
Making a move from digital marketing to business analysis and the product was a big leap for me. Given the different job responsibilities and required skillsets, this job switch not only changed my career path (partially), but also drove me…
How to Prepare Design Options in Business Analysis
The purpose of defining design options is to identify solutions approach, allocate requirements across solution components and present potential design options that could meet the desired outcome. When designing a solution, there might be more than one design option fitting…
Four Things I Do to Become More Productive at Work
When I was at university, I used to study more than 10 hours a day and participated in a lot of ex-curricular activities. This landed me scholarships and some great opportunities to build up my personal growth. Working hard became…
How to Classify Requirements in Business Analysis
Product development always gets off the ground by addressing an unfulfilled need identified among customers or by filling a gap within the peer products in the market. Those unfulfiled needs as well as market opportunities can be converted into a …
How to Create User Personas in Product Design
A user persona is a comprehensive description of your ideal customer. Needlessly saying, it is an essential part of the user research and contributes to product design. The key elements to establish a user persona stem from marketing management theories….
Keep Project Running As Usual in COVID-19
I never thought about that our work environment and work approach could go through such a dramatic change in the past few two months due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Working from home is no longer a buzzword. Instead, it…
Popular Requirements Prioritisation Techniques in Agile Development
Prioritising requirements is one of the most important tasks in requirements lifecycle management for business analysts and it’s also a key project manager’s responsibility before moving any tasks from the product backlog to sprint backlog. The purpose of prioritisation is…
Five Key Skills Every Product Manager Must Have
Being competitive as a product manager within any industry always requires both hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills are very pertinent to the role and the work being done on day-to-day basis. Those hard skills are quite technical, and…
