Pavan Kumar

AMA: Gainsight Director, Product Management, Pavan Kumar on Product Development Process

November 12 @ 11:00AM PT
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Pavan Kumar
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco5mo
At our company, we use a tightly integrated set of tools to maintain a single source of truth across Product planning, Design, and Decision-making / Prioritisation activi...
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Pavan Kumar
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco5mo
A structured way to estimate effort and manage uncertainty is through the 3C Framework – Clarity, Calibration, and Control. It helps balance speed with confidence in deli...
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Pavan Kumar
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco5mo
Conducting post-launch reviews and feeding learnings back into the roadmapA well-run post-launch review is more than a retrospective - it’s a structured way to convert cu...
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Pavan Kumar
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco5mo
We follow a biweekly cadence for backlog refinement and sprint planning to stay agile in execution while maintaining alignment with longer-term strategic goals. This rhyt...
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Pavan Kumar
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco5mo
We run beta and early access (EA) programs as structured, time-bound experiments designed to validate new functionality before general availability. Each program follows ...
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Pavan Kumar
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco5mo
5 steps to go from data curious to data confidentAsk before you analyze – Define the hypothesis and success metric clearly.Start small – Use prebuilt dashboards before ju...
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Pavan Kumar
Gainsight Director, Product Management | Formerly Cisco5mo
I use a structured approach I call the A.L.I.G.N. Framework – ensuring clarity, context, and commitment across all stakeholders before development begins.A.L.I.G.N. – Art...
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