Sourav Debnath

AMA: WooCommerce Director of Product Management, Payment partners and POS, Sourav Debnath on Stakeholder Management

May 8 @ 10:00AM PT
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
Product Management is the craft of - identifying and defining the underlying customer problems (User Research) deciding what problems to solve to create the targeted va...
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
Product Management is the craft of - identifying and defining the underlying customer problems (User Research) deciding what problems to solve to create the targeted val...
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
Product intuition is a sixth sense about what the real problem is, what could be the value created and what should a solution feel like. It's a mix of nature and experien...
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
C-suites have short time in hand and attention spans. They want the most impactful updates in a precise, succinct and bulleted format. I normally take these steps when up...
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
Cross-functional meetings depends on the stage of the product development whether it is in Discovery or Development. I have covered the key stakeholders that can particip...
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
A lack of clarity on area of ownership vs. area of influence and leading with emotion vs. rationale/logic are two key reasons that I think lead to disagreements.Having pe...
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
We normally use Gen AI to communicate on meetings notes and key decisions/outcomes to stakeholders. As a Product Manager, Gen AI has been very valuable in supporting my p...
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
It's a best practice to keep all stakeholders in the loop from proposal to delivery. The drivers (team) at different stages of product discovery or development could chan...
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Sourav Debnath
Finmo Head of Product, Core | Formerly Woo, Afterpay, Xero, PayPal1y
Building products are all about identifying and solving problems for your users. In short it's all about answering the Why, Who, What and How. I 'll explain the key drive...
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