Who is Anand?
Anand is a tenured Product Manager with over 5 years of Product experience and over 14 years of core IT Experience. He has a Masters Degree in Business administration majoring in IT & Marketing, and has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science engineering.
Certifications
ProductHQ Certified Product Manager
Scaled Agile Certified Product Manager
Green Belt Certified in Six Sigma
What does he do?
- Anand builds products! He specializes in transforming fragmented (and very often chaotic) requirements from customers and stakeholders into tangible, intuitive products that are successful in adding value to the customer and the company.
- Anand translates, A LOT! Different stakeholders speak different languages. He talks to a multitude of stakeholders in a language that they understand. He ensures everyone is on the same page and has a shared vision of what we’re trying to achieve.
- Users speak in woes and wishes
- Legal speaks only Compliance
- UX speaks in Assets, components, wireframes and mockups
- Tech team only speaks in User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Epics, Features & Backlog
- Don’t even get us started on the Finance team
- Anand creates detailed roadmaps and breaks up how the entire product can be delivered in smaller pieces.
- Anand defines how and what success should look like for his products. He ensures even after products go live, he has objective numbers and measurements showing the product is adding value just as it was intended to!
What tools does he use?
- Azure Devops / Jira
- Figma
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- SQL / MongoDB / Oracle DB
- SoapUI / Postman
- Balsamiq Mockups
- Quantum Metrics
- Microstrategy / Tableau
