“It’s… Magic!” Every superhero has an origin story. Here’s how one humble SaaS metric became the super-useful Magic Number.

We will use simple examples to show how it works for different types of products. In previous articles, we discussed why increasing the added value is the core of product work. We also explained why product metrics do not always clearly characterize the effectiveness of solving a problem, so we introduced the concepts of problem-solving efficiency and added value metrics. Measuring efficiency and added value is more complicated than it might seem. In this essay, we will explore some of the tried and tested ways to measure them.

Understanding Apple’s victory in Apple v. Epic, and the limitations of the injunction on anti-steering provisions.

The FTC’s new Facebook case isn’t any better than the old one, even as there are ever more questions about the potential harm of regulatory interference

Elements of Forecasting and Its Applications in Product Management

Why does it matter so much for new businesses?

There’s a moderate-to-high correlation between a company’s growth in any given year and the following year. This correlation holds for earlier stage SaaS companies as well, but there are so many exceptions that founders shouldn’t be discouraged by a slow year. It’s all about trying to understand why growth went down and what can be done to reignite it.

I’ve been writing about being a business analyst for a while now. I always used to dwell on the fact that how much of grey area the title and job role is. I was puzzled about where to next, what to learn and how to become better in what I do. I always felt inadequate and I always looked for content to study and understand but sometimes failed to see a continuation or proper direction on what to study or practice to become better at what I do

Feeding the accumulating advantage flywheel

In certain companies, mostly those that have an IT heritage (see https://svpg.com/moving-from-it-to-product-organization), there may be an additional role somewhere in the product organization ­ either in product management or in the product development organization ­ that may be called ‘Business Analyst.’ This is not to be confused with the Business Analyst role in product organizations …