Every product has a lifecycle that consists of four phases: introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Having three major iterations and hundreds of enhancements, my product, an E-learning experience platform went into the maturity stage. Unlike the introduction phase, my focus…
Project Management
Transitioning from a Project Manager to Product Manager
Emerging from the surge of the Internet and the fast growth of mobile technologies, it’s been only around 13 years since the role of product manager came onto the stage. Born in the digital age, there is no particular major…
How to Maintain Requirements in Business Analysis
The purpose of maintain requirements in business analysis is to keep the accuracy and consistency of the requirements throughout and beyond the changes in the project lifecycle. This not only ensures that the requirements can be traced with requirements attributes,…
Documentation Skills for Product Manager – Document Like a Pro
It didn’t take too long until I realised that most of my time was consumed by meetings, emails, internal discussion and communicating with key stakeholders. Having tried some tactics to boost my productivity, namely time-boxing and standard operation process, I…
Success Factors for Developing a Learning Experience Platform
Building a product used widely and much loved by a majority of people perhaps is a significant milestone for a product manager. What has made a product successful is the unique value users can benefit from. The value proposition always…
How to Manage Requirements Change Control Process
When it comes to requirement changes, product managers usually try to avoid putting themselves in a dilemma between the development team and product stakeholders. From a product development perspective, changing requirements inevitably leads to the adjustment in user journey or…
Three Important Lessons I Learned from Product Development
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…
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…
