# Product Jargon ## Posts - [The Hidden Strength of Enterprise SaaS—It’s Not Just the Product, It’s the Ecosystem](https://productjargon.com/the-hidden-strength-of-enterprise-saasits-not-just-the-product-its-the-ecosystem/): I’ve spent the last 12 years building SaaS products—both at early-stage startups and inside large-scale enterprise platforms. I’ve built from scratch, scaled features, wrestled with technical debt, fought UX battles, and sold into complex B2B orgs. And over time, one truth has become increasingly clear to me: Enterprise software doesn’t win just because it’s good. It wins because people build their careers on it. We all know the names: Salesforce. SAP. Oracle. ServiceNow. Workday.Ask any user—or even many admins—and you’ll often hear the same complaints: “It’s powerful, but clunky.”“The UI is unintuitive.”“It takes months to implement.”“Support is slow, and the […] - [The System of Chaos: How Leaders Evolve from Fighting Fires to Shaping Futures](https://productjargon.com/the-system-of-chaos-how-leaders-evolve-from-fighting-fires-to-shaping-futures/): Chaos isn’t a flaw in leadership—it’s the forge where great leaders are made. In my 15+ years navigating product management in enterprise software, I’ve seen countless leaders burn out trying to eliminate chaos. The ones who rise to the executive suite, however, do something radically different: they build systems to harness chaos as fuel for growth. Here’s how the most effective leaders graduate from “firefighter” to “futurist”—and how you can too. Chaos Isn’t the Problem—Your Relationship With It Is Most professionals see chaos as a failure of planning. Executives see it as a constant. The difference lies in how leaders […] - [Right Questions to ask when you join a new org as a product manager](https://productjargon.com/right-questions-to-ask-when-you-join-a-new-org-as-a-product-manager/): I have worked with multiple organisations in the last decade and there is one thing used perplex me is “how do I quickly get onboarded to a new workplace”. While some organization do have great onboarding programs but most of them give you a surface level understanding of the ecosystem. As a product manager , our responsibilities are very cross functional in nature i.e we need to be aware of entire company ecosystem. We need to ensure we know the right people across departments and at the same time we understand the business properly. We as PM’s sit right at […] - [Learnings from running 100 experiments in 100 days!](https://productjargon.com/learnings-from-running-100-experiments-in-100-days/): In this blog post, I am going to talk about the journey from “zero to one” and all the learnings that came out of it. We were working on our annual goal-setting exercise and one of the strategic initiatives was to build a “Culture of experimentation“. To give more context, I was working with a company that offers a SaaS product to run A/B tests. As we were working on our annual initiatives we realized that the biggest bottleneck for experimentation program to be successful is “Culture of experimentation” To truly help our customers with this shift in the culture […] - [uncovering the meaning of customer data platform?](https://productjargon.com/uncovering-the-meaning-of-customer-data-platform/): You have heard it before and I am sure you read a lot about it as well BUT do you really understand the importance of a customer data platform? WHAT is a customer data platform? There is enough literature out there that explains and defines a CDP but let me try to give you the simplistic meaning of a customer data platform. First, we need to understand the problem that it is trying to solve so let us spend some time on it. THE PROBLEM Until a few years back there was limited know-how of analytics or any other platforms […] - [how to handle objections from stakeholders [PODCAST episode #1]](https://productjargon.com/how-to-handle-objections-from-stakeholders-podcast-episode-1/): Stakeholder management is a very under-rated skill for a product manager but it probably is one of the most important skills that is required by every product manager. As a product manager we sit right at the center of the business and if you ask any product manager about their ‘typical day’ then you’ll hear a lot of them talk about how they interact with various stakeholder’s across the business. In this Podcast , Clement Kao and I discuss this topic at length and understand it with real life examples. Hope you like it. Do let me know if you […] - [Let us talk about imposter syndrome!](https://productjargon.com/let-us-talk-about-imposter-syndrome/): As a product manager I have always had that feeling hanging over my head with questions such as “What if I am not building good products? “ or “What if I am not innovating enough? “ or “All of my immediate colleagues have tons of domain experience, how will I ever compete? “ The feeling of inadequacy when you get such questions in your mind is called “Imposter Syndrome” (I learned about this “term” only after I got this feeling and searched about this topic online :D) Product managers are more susceptible to imposter syndrome due to the nature of […] - [building a go-to-market activity checklist for saas products](https://productjargon.com/building-a-go-to-market-activity-checklist-for-saas-products/): I love having checklist’s to ensure that I am not forgetting important repetitive steps of a feature development. Let us discuss the benefit’s a little later but first let us discuss why do we even need to worry about building a Go-To-Market activity checklist? Most product managers believe that the most important KPI for them is to “ship“ the feature. You can ship 100 features but they are of no use if the customers are unable to discover them or find value in them. There are a few basic steps that should be added to your go-to-market activity checklist. Channels […] - [Are you looking at all the right places to understand customer pain points?](https://productjargon.com/are-you-looking-at-all-the-right-places-to-understand-customer-pain-points/): One of the most important responsibilities of a product manager is to identify “Customer pain points”. As soon as I said customer pain point, you all must be thinking that I will talk about user interviews, running surveys etc but I will NOT be talking about these things in this post. “The easiest way to understand customer pain points is to just ‘ask’ them“ Well the above statement is absolutely valid and but here are few limitations of this approach Not all customers have time to give you detailed feedback. Not all customers have time to fill up a survey. […] - [what to do with all the product usage data](https://productjargon.com/what-to-do-with-all-the-product-usage-data/): In the previous post, we discussed product instrumentation i.e mapping your product to effectively measure product adoption. When you are collecting a lot of data about the usage of your application, it becomes really tricky to represent all that data in a readable format. I will try to explain how we (VWO) approached this problem. I have taken one of our products called VWO Testing – An A/B testing product as an example to explain this further. Challenges Once we had mapped the entire product we had about 1000+ events that we were tracking across our products. We had data […] - [Uncovering the meaning of product instrumentation](https://productjargon.com/product-instrumentation/): In this post, I aim to give you all a complete understanding of product instrumentation but before we discuss it let us talk about one of the most common questions that every product manager has to answer about his/her product. “Okay so you have built some great features but how do you know that are helping the customers?” The answer to this question is simple for most product managers. They would give out a list of metrics to measure the success of their feature/product. We are living in a world where data plays the most important role in decision making. 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