Product Development Journey...

Product Development journey...My story

When I was considering products, my books were my products. I have been figuring out all these parameters to enhance product development capability.

As I am the coach for product organizations, I am employing the same knowledge to build my products.

It truly establishes “Walk the talk”! I am not preaching, I am applying to substantiate my product management capabilities.

Every product caters to a problem space and solution for that space.

What is my problem space for these books?

On the transformation journey, I was consistently looking for ideas that could be implemented in the context I am operating.

The existing books available in the market are not distinct from the context where I was operating. I was not able to get the right ideas from those books. The time consumption was high.

Those books are not offering me the suggestions which I was looking for. I had to spend a lot of time experimenting.

I was thinking of an integrated solution for all the problems related to the Transformation journey, which I was not getting at one place.

To solve this problem, I have started capturing those in blogs that people were liking. A couple of my mentors proposed consolidating those blogs and sharing them with people who are in need of those guidelines. That is how I was considering introducing these solutions as a book.

I call them nowadays “Knowledge-tree Guidebooks".

It is a system that I am trying to establish that can be practiced by any Agilist to confront the complexity in the transformation journey.

A few points I have applied to produce these books, I have asked a few questions:

• What problem am I solving?
• Why do I need to solve this problem?
• Why me?
• What unique offering do I have which can serve others?
• Can these books inspire readers to take action for the tremendous benefits?
• Are all these books relevant for modernized needs esp the Digital world?
• I keep communicating about my offering to reach the utmost needy readers!
• And in the end, I believe in my offering!

• The Agilist’s Guidebook - For Organizational Transformation
• The Scrum Master Guidebook - To strengthen the Scrum Master role, this book is also enabled for personal Agility and can be applied to any role.
• The Personal Leadership and Self-Coaching Guidebook - To strengthen all of our leadership traits and make ourselves the better leaders
• A Guidebook of coaching High-Performance Teams - This book is to build a better team on the transformation journey.
• A guidebook for coaching Product Management - This book is under construction which will help product managers to be ready for transformation and create awesome products.

To build these products iteratively, I have been launching each book every year.

There are many unknowns in the problem space. I am interacting with many of my readers or potential readers to collect input from them. I am incorporating the same in my next book.

I have been getting immense help from my reader's community. I must acknowledge them. Without them, scaling would be difficult.

My readers are my users/customers, I am assuring their needs are addressed. The kind of problem they are encountering and which are not satisfied by the other solutions, my solutions serving them.

So far, these books have sold 2500 copies in these 4 yrs journeys. More numbers of readers are reading, more books are producing.

Value obtain from these Guidebooks:

· Pathfinder guidebook for all agilist

· Real-life challenges explained which will stimulate?to?explore and take action

· Mind maps for the obvious understanding of the main concepts

· Many Checklists for complex topics

· Case studies to practices and substantiates learning

· Places to write down the personal actions to be taken for changes

· Quotes to inspire readers for the forward movements

· 500+ pages to offer adequate information about the subjects to understand and practice

· Illustrations to portray analogy to the obvious conclusion

· Pushes readers to understand the transformation and take actions

· Many frameworks, models suggested constructing a comprehensive Guidebook for reference

· These books are establishing systems for success

In the Product development journey, I am completely applying all the prescriptions written by great marketing gurus. I must share that without great marketing no product can scale!

As an artist, these are my creation for this world!

To get the free pages from these books

1. A Guidebook of Coaching High Performance Team - First 200 pages

2. The Scrum Master Guidebook - First 150 pages

3. We Can Lead - A Guidebook of Personal Leadership and Self-Coaching - First 200 pages

4. The Agilist's Guidebook first 150 pages