Product managers need to understand business to deliver a better product. As a PM, you may work in different companies and industries. You might already become an expert in your previous job but become a rookie in the new one. One of the biggest challenges for PMs during career transition…

The background of this story is that we just acquired another company, and we were asked to deliver the same invoices services to the clients that would be migrated to us. Before the migration, our existing invoice products worked totally differently. We had only two months to release it on production. After one day’s daily, one backend developer reached me on Slack. — “Hei Tianran, how the specifications on the invoices should be like if this happens?”

One of the most challenging tasks for a PM is finding the metrics that really matter to your product and avoiding vanity metrics. In this article, I will introduce a framework for PMs to understand better what they are building and set up more rational metrics for their products or functionalities. — 1 Do You Really Know What You Are Building? Every PM knows what they are building. Every PM knows what their products are for. Every PM knows what problems they are trying to solve. (Hopefully:))

If you still consider TikTok as an entertainment App, then you are not seeing Douyin has developed great businesses in China. Under the development of Douyin and TikTok, enormous opportunies are coming along with the new trends. — Are you still wondering how and why Douyin（抖音）/TikTok goes viral all of a sudden? Are you still trying to understand why your kids are so addicted to TikTok? Before you figure it out, it might be already too late to start understanding what does Douyin/TikTok mean to you and your…

In my previous article, I briefly explained three questions you need to answer before starting a business. In this article, I want to discuss another topic that a PO or PM should look into——business models. It helps you understand where the money from. I will talk about four typical business…

What is a Business? You may have different opinions and answers to this question. However, have you ever thought of what you need to consider before starting a business? Instead of zooming the concept of business into a large scope, I’d prefer to introduce a business in the following definition. …