Over the last 8 years, I’ve managed over 35 successful technology and user-focused products spanning from my time at Huawei technologies to PayJoy incorporation, and now TalkTalk, working in product and program management. I really enjoy communicating with stakeholders, creating vertical-specific solutions, and providing product leadership to software teams in creating application workflows and useful solutions to customers' problems. I have worked at three startups to date where I have taken products to market, studied user patterns and engagements with products, and have fully utilized and managed appropriate touchpoints users should be aware of using product-centric tools and service monitoring solutions. I’ve been able to engineer fully effective technical solutions to solve industry-wide problems. I have substantial professionalism in product management which I demonstrate by consistently combining experience in Technology, operations, leadership, and business development, with sound industry practices, in multiverse environments. I have worked on multiple projects managing cross-functional teams, iterating on incremental product releases and practicing scrum and agile principles, events with an empirical process. I’m able to map the product vision to a product-technology canvas that ensures systems, tools and applications feed into the big picture of the business. What I can bring ————————— how ideas and concepts become reality, how a PM works cross-functionally with multiple teams to keep a project flowing and how a PM continues to iterate and improve upon products after they've made it to consumers' hands. My approach to this includes: ————————————————— * How to figure out what to build, by working publicly with your team * How to get useful input from your senior stakeholders, by writing great pre-reads * How to lock down a decision with many stakeholders, with a structured process Experience I have ——————————- - Experimenting with A/B Testing - Analytical development - Customer interviews - User research - Feature prioritization - Translating business to tech requirements through user stories
My Mentoring Topics
- - Business Strategy
- - Product Development
- - Product Discovery
- - Management
- - Leadership
- User research
- User centricity
- Experimentation and iteration
- Agile
- Data analytics - using data to drive informed decisions
- Success criteria
- Product releases
- Measuring product feedback
- Revenue
- Requirement gathering - writing user stories, and breaking them down.
- Feature prioritization
- Product Documentation
T.
12.November 2021The session with Abdul was really helpful and beneficial to me. I have always wanted to know the right steps to take to transition to a product role and he guided me well on this. He also provided me with resources that will be very useful to me when i eventually do so.
S.
18.September 2021Hi Abdul Afees, I sincerely appreciate how you guided me through me through the process of setting up a user story and product discovery workshop with my engineering team. It's made a profound impact on my professional development. Thank you so much for the resources as well - especially the one on product analytics and roadmapping. I have started to benefit from them.
U.
2.December 2021Thanks for discussing the key topics on product management and how to handle high stakes communication. You made the session engaging and made me feel comfortable.