Six Lessons About Product Management I learnt in Kitchen — from Brioche to Gujjiya
There is a very good bakery in my locality that offers whole wheat products without any preservatives. I am very fond of their Cashew Jaggery Brioche. After ordering for almost 6–7 months, I decided that let me give it a try at home. So I browsed Brioche recipe and got one, now I didn’t had yeast the other day, so I used soda thinking it would still work!
Nevertheless I wasn’t expecting the bakery style Brioche at first go, but what I got was a bread loaf with jaggery and cashew scattered here and there.
As it was warm and fresh, it was tasting nice. But the next day it was hard and may be the proportion weren’t apt so even the jaggery and cashew taste was lost.
Leave about others, even I didn’t wanted to eat it and there was almost half a loaf waiting to get into our tummy. I looked at the loaf and it seems it was consoling me for better luck next time.
When you cant think of any idea, better to wait is my mantra and so I kept it aside preparing lunch.
Suddenly, a glowing bulb was on over my head, this loaf is somewhat tasting like batti [ its one of the famous delicacies’ in Rajasthan] and from batti they make churma, as its already loaded with cashew and jaggery I just need to crush it mix more of dry fruits and voila — churma is ready.
So for lunch — churma was ready for desserts! I added a dash of cinnamon to make it more yummy as it was winters. And the whole family enjoyed it
But yet I had the leftover churma, now what to do! And then again the glowing bulb appeared … and next innovation happened — I made gujjiya from that stuffing.
And that was enjoyed even more! Yipeee
As a Product Consultant I find this very relatable
Lesson # 1 — A feature that I looked/got to know on others website seems just the perfect fit for my product and the first itch is to get it for my product too.
Lesson # 2 — But without knowing about the technology and collecting/limited resources often we jump to the execution.
Lesson # 3 — The prototypes, design ,planning and even the alpha version looks awesome just as the warm ,fresh baked brioche filled our senses. But when you integrate this new feature or release the beta version — suddenly there is a critical issue.
Lesson # 4 — But as the efforts , resources and time was wasted, the team need to be gathered and pulled in to re-work again, as I had to put in extra time to get brioche in our tummies.
Lesson # 5 — The Customer was not keen to go for half-baked product, they wanted a refined and more sophisticated with a dash of innovation quite similar to making digital journey similar to what they do in the physical world.
But most importantly I learnt -
Lesson # 6 — Lastly, even though I made mistakes I learnt how to correct them and that’s what counts! And that’s where my “experience” matters.
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