Today’s post is my compiled set of notes on AWS Streaming Data Collection. This will be a part of a series of my prep notes for the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty certification. We wanted to share the learning journey and contribute to the wider community interested in learning more about data, analytics and… Read more: AWS Streaming Data Collection

Today’s post is my compiled set of notes on AWS Batch Data Collection. This will be a part of a series of my prep notes for the AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty certification. We wanted to share the learning journey and contribute to the wider community interested in learning more about data, analytics and… Read more: AWS Batch Data Collection

This week’s post is about output driven input growth strategies. A short set of thoughts on how your external facing work (output) can be a great way to reinforce your learnings, get skills and be successful (input). What is output driven input? Have you ever been in a situation where you had to run a… Read more: Output driven input strategies: 4 growth shortcuts

This weeks post will teach you how you can save time by converting your notes straight into a Work Breakdown Structure aka WBS and Gantts charts with PlantUML. On the last couple weeks we looked into ways to use information mapping to improve communication. We have reviewed 3 Helpful Information Maps For Product Managers and… Read more: Tutorial: Convert you notes into a WBS and Gantt charts with PlantUML

This week’s post will teach you how to shortcut your way through understanding a data model for a MongoDB database, through a simple python script and graphviz to power the visuals. Recently I had a challenge when trying to rearchitect a data stack using a document database as its main source of data. Why using… Read more: Need a data model for a MongoDB database? Here’s how to do one.

This week we will look into ways to communicate effectively. We will explore 3 Helpful Information Maps For Product Managers to keep on their toolkit. Communication is probably one of biggest handicaps as product manager. Even though communication skills come as an innate ability, it is definitely something that can be trained and learned. In… Read more: 3 Helpful Information Maps For Product Managers

On this week’s post we will do the post mortem and review the anatomy of a failed product. We will look back at the Idea Shortcut’s first project: Music Cutter and uncover why it has not taken off. The Idea and its faults What’s the idea? Music Cutter Online – Cut to Beat is a… Read more: Anatomy of a failed product: Music Cutter

This week’s post is about preparing customer discovery interviews. When to run them? How to engage? And what strategies to use during the interview? I have been prepping to run customer interviews for a new feature. This was a great opportunity to review my previous experience on running custommer interviews and to review the best… Read more: Preparing customer discovery interviews: from engagement to meeting script

This week’s post is about our (PR)FAQ Database. We will talk about the idea, the present and how plan to evolve it in future. This post is long due. This summer we launched a micro tool to help Product Managers create their own PRFAQs. (PR)FAQ Database is a living database of curated questions that Product… Read more: (PR)FAQ Database: The idea, present and future

This week’s post is about my journey of taking a certification for which I have none of the requirements for! We will dive into the challenges and benefits of taking a AWS Specialty Certification as a Product Manager. On our Q4 Roadmap Planning, we decided to have a strong learning component. The idea was to… Read more: AWS Specialty Certification as a Product Manager

I have recently joined a new company: EV Connect. This is my 3rd role as a Product Manager, so I have had couple experiences and learning of starting fresh. As I am taking my first steps on my new venture, I thought I should map how I want my first 90 days as a product… Read more: My first 30, 60, 90 days as a Product Manager

In this article we’ll look into our plans and commitments for the rest of the year. This will be the first post of our Public Roadmap series, where we will announce ideas and ask for feedback. I have recently got a new senior product manager role at a new company: EV Connect. One of my… Read more: Public Roadmap: Idea Shortcut’s Q4 Plan

Product Discovery describes the work required to decide what to build on a product, feature or initiative. On this article we’ll explore 13 PRFAQ questions to ask yourself when doing Product Discovery. Questions around what and why something should be built are the focus of discovery. At this stage it’s important to spend more time… Read more: Product Discovery – 13 important PFRAQ questions to ask

I’m a guy with a lot of ideas, most of them are pretty bad, nonetheless I can’t prevent myself from constantly trying to invent, optimize and innovate. I am like this at work, at home, with friends, with family and also on my personal projects. I guess this is what’s leading me to create a… Read more: Innovating after 6 p.m.: stretching the blanket

Ever had problems expressing your business idea? Sometimes an idea sounds promising, but when you try to pitch you fall short in hitting the questions that prove it’s value. At Idea Shortcut we’re big fans of Amazon’s Working Backwards framework, which focus on developing products working backwards from the customer. A great exercise to do… Read more: Press Release Generator: The Idea

This is the third of three articles that explore the challenges of using Failing Fast strategies in enterprise. On the previous article we covered the problems B2B companies face when trying to failing fast. On this article we’ll cover a set of coping mechanisms to safe guard the use of Fail Fast strategies in enterprise. Hyper… Read more: Failing Fast in Enterprise: Part 3 – The Solutions

This is the second of three articles that explores the challenges of using Failing Fast strategies in enterprise. On the previous article we presented the Failing Fast strategy and talked about MVPs. On this article we’ll cover the problems B2B companies face in failing fast. Fat MVPs Setting expectations with customers tends to be easier… Read more: Failing Fast in Enterprise: Part 2 – The Problems

This is the first of a set of three articles that explores the meaning, challenges, pitfalls and solutions of using Failing Fast strategies in established B2B businesses. Failing Fast Those of us working on product and innovation, or anyone with an interest in entrepreneurship have probably heard the term “Failing Fast”. Failing fast is a… Read more: Failing Fast in Enterprise: Part1 – The Strategy

The Context On my wife’s 30th anniversary I decided to make her a video with flash backs of her life, from the time she was little to the present day. I have asked my parents-in-law for old photos and gathered tons of footage from time we’ve been together. Given that most of the material were… Read more: Music Cutter or Exit Music App (For a Film): The idea

I think it’s fair to say most of us are happy to leave 2020 behind. We’re all hopeful that 2021 has better things to come, including the returning of freedom of circulation after harsh lockdowns across the globe. Following  privacy trends introduced in previous years, with GDPR, CCPA, ITP, 2021 also marks 1 year since… Read more: 2022: The year where privacy can hurt Publishers and … Users

Today is the another blog is born. Idea Shortcut will be a test bed for product/idea development and also a platform for the founder and his friends to talk about their views and interests. On Idea Shortcut we’ll look into what it takes to materialize ideas quickly. From fast learning skills, extreme prototyping and rapid… Read more: Hello world: Idea Shortcut is out!