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…
Project Management
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…
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….
