How many times have you applied to speak at the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) for Women in Computing event? In my case 3 times and I have been accepted once. Never heard of GHC? If you are a female in tech you should definitely check it out. I will use this blog to share my […]
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What’s in a question?
In retrospect: I chose to republish this blog because the art of true problem identification through observing and working with end users is really important in product management, and it often comes down to the types of questions you ask initially. It is a skill that needs to be practiced and honed. So many times […]
I am not a number. I am a person.
In retrospect: While at SAP I participated in a fellowship that had me relocate to the Palo Alto office in California during 2013. I got to work with the SAP Design Team lead by the (then) Chief Design Officer Sam Yen. During this fellowship I got the chance to study Design Thinking with Sam’s group […]
Out with the old, in with the new?
In retrospect: With an aging development workforce, SAP started socializing an intellectual renewal/cultural revolution within the company at the beginning of 2013. As a part of these efforts, I got the amazing opportunity early in my career to program manage an initiative that had university students developing multiple consumer iOS applications for the sports industry. […]
How Can IoT Help Retailers?
In retrospect: It wasn’t until I started playing around with RFID technologies that I got exposed to the retail industry. At the time I was still at SAP and we were experimenting with “Big Data” producers. RFID produces a LOT of data (albeit a lot of noise too). As the product lead I was more […]
International Barcode of Life meets SAP & Design Thinking – A Real Life Software Development Example
In retrospect: I was working as a Product Manager for Sybase iAnywhere when we got acquired by SAP and my team was transformed into an “emerging technologies” team by some great post M&A organizational maneuvering. I then got the lucky opportunity to work with the Barcode of Life community from the University of Guelph. In […]
Introducing Tulip Retail Runner — Next Gen Retailing Task Management
In retrospect: I was brought into Tulip to originally build greenfield mobile applications or “to innovate”. Runner was one of the mobile applications that my team created based on a very simple need that all retailers had – fetching items for clients while in-store. But the beautiful thing about this application was that it was […]
Known Knowns: Using Journey Mapping to tell the Future of Retail Story
In retrospect: Journey Mapping is such a great exercise to help teams understand their true users and what they struggle with. I have run this activity many times with participants ranging from retail executives and store associates to university students. This blog outlines a journey mapping session I ran when I was heading up product […]
RETURNS: the problem that keeps coming back
In retrospect: Return Rules was one of the first major features we shipped when I joined Tecsys OrderDynamics as head of product for the retail distributed order management (DOM) platform. Upon learning about the product, the first piece of product strategy I set in motion was to separate out the “set & forget” functionality of […]