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Malthi SS shared thisAn evening to reminisce with some fantastic people and we all had few things in common- craziness , passion to build and hustling Amazing event with eminent speakers on variety of topics by Swati Awasthi and AMRIT RAJ at The Great Product Festival It was fun catching up with my learners from my AI PM course. Swati Sharma Suchitra Ravichander Raghu Lalitha Ramani K session was very powerful and as expected she was surrounded by attendees for a long time. Blessed to have worked with her and mentored by her Super stoked to have met Ritika Chugh Adithi S. Deeksha Anand Nitin Pulyani finally in person Always a pleasure to meet Vaishnavi Devi Sandeep Balaji Malavika Lakireddy Pleasure to connect with Abhinav Gandotra Sreevally (Sree) Pasumarthy Shalini Dayanidhi Vishwajeet Jonnada,CSPO® Himajaa Indukuri
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Malthi SS shared this**I’ve started to believe that flexibility is one of the most underrated enablers of discipline.** For the longest time, I thought being disciplined meant sticking to the plan. Workout at 7 AM. Never miss a class. Follow the routine exactly as planned. But life doesn’t work that way. - Some mornings are packed with work. - Some days start early. - Some evenings get completely taken over by meetings or family commitments. And I realized that if my discipline depends on doing something at a fixed time, it becomes very easy to break. My fitness journey has taught me that if I am flexible in my routine then I have a higher chance of staying disciplined and be consistent I have a non-negotiable goal to stay active and take care of my fitness But the time doesn't have to be non-negotiable. If I can't work out in the morning, I do it later in the day. If I don't have an hour, I find 30 minutes. If a planned workout isn't possible, I walk. The commitment stays constant. The time, duration and approach can change. And that flexibility has actually made it easier for me to stay consistent over the long term. This applies far beyond fitness - to learning, work, personal goals and even building products and teams. **Be rigid about what matters. Be flexible about how you get there.** Prashant Arora - thanks for bringing in the flexibility quotient
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Malthi SS shared thisOne of the biggest learning when I moved from #Corporate to #Consulting. Stay #neutral and unbiased during any evaluations and assessments. Your biggest contribution will be to give an expert and outside-in perspective and contribute #constructively Be highly #empathetic and #diplomatic communication without altering the reality is your biggest strength Stay #humble and be kind because that is what makes clients share their vulnerabilities and open to improve/change Do not burn the bridges
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Malthi SS shared this#bangalorestarups #hyperlocal Recently in my PM101 class we were discussing about some start ups and I learnt one of them operating in my neighborhood and I had no idea about it. This conversation got me curious and while I know that Bangalore neighborhoods are fertile grounds for early stage start ups targeted for urban needs, but i decided to find out which are the one I should look out for especially solving for our local needs. Here is the list, I have verified each one of them on Playstore or Appstore. Share with me which one you have tried and are there any missing ones. I have tried only FirstClub so far and I am a very happy customer. I do have a few I want to try next.. SparkProd Consulting Private Limited
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Malthi SS shared thisLast week I was back at IIM Udaipur to conduct a hybrid workshop on "Agentic AI with Claude Code". AI literacy or Working with Agents is no more nice to have but companies are expecting that every student understands AI and knows how to build Agents. We put together an outline that was highly tailored for B-School students given the diversity of their backgrounds, work experience and technical fluency. A hybrid delivery to suit their hectic schedule. While we made all the preparations to ensure everyone is able to complete the hands-on, nothing can prepare you for a highly talented group of 120 students expecting basic to advance concepts. 120 students completed the hands on sessions completely More than 90% students voted the session rating as 4/5 or 5/5 Each student is now building their own agent(s) or AI application We covered following concepts - Basic of AI/ML and common terminologies - Basic of RAG - AI Applicability Framework - Agentic AI - Claude Code concepts from skills to MCP - AI Governance Post workshop, Demo of actual agents built by students was the highlight Thanks to Nitya Sagar for working with me to create an exhaustive lab set up for students Thanks to B. Vinay Rao and his team for coordinating the entire workshop SparkProd Consulting Private Limited If you would like us to conduct such workshops for your students or #ProdMan clubs then drop a note to malthi@sparkprod.in
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Malthi SS shared thisSharing for reach to Product leaders hiring in their teamMalthi SS shared thisI’m posting about PARAS JAIN again. Not because his profile has suddenly changed. But exactly because his profile has not changed. Because it has been several months, and despite a sustained job search, we still haven’t found the right Product opportunity for him. I’ve known and mentored Paras for more than 10 years. So this isn’t a recommendation based on a resume or a few conversations. I’ve seen his journey closely. Paras is an FMS Delhi MBA graduate (Class of 2026) with experience across Intel, Adobe, Zomato, Wipro and EY. At Intel , he worked on automation and accessibility initiatives and is a co-inventor on patents aimed at improving screen-reader experiences. At Zomato, he contributed to product work across discovery, notifications and accessibility. He also co-founded I-Stem, an initiative focused on making STEM education more accessible, which has impacted thousands of users and received support from organisations including UNICEF and Microsoft. Paras is visually impaired. I mention that explicitly because accessibility can sometimes become the first thing people see in his profile. I would urge hiring managers to look beyond that and evaluate what he actually brings: Strong problem-solving ability. First-hand understanding of users who are often ignored in product decisions. Experience working across large technology companies and startups. And an unusual amount of resilience and resourcefulness. Over the last few months, we have applied, reached out, asked for referrals and had conversations. Some have progressed; many haven’t. And I know hiring is difficult right now. I also know that finding the first team willing to bet on someone whose path looks a little different can be disproportionately hard. So I’m asking my network once again. If your team is hiring for an APM / Product Manager role, or if you know a Product leader who would be willing to have a serious conversation with Paras, please reach out to him or connect us. I’m not asking anyone to lower the bar. I’m asking for an opportunity for him to be evaluated against it. Paras Jain: https://lnkd.in/ee8XNnR A referral, an introduction, or simply getting this post in front of the right hiring manager could make a real difference. #ProductManagement #ProductManager #APM #ProductJobs #Hiring #TechHiring #Accessibility #InclusiveHiring #InclusiveDesignPARAS JAIN - New Delhi, Delhi, India | Professional Profile | LinkedInPARAS JAIN - New Delhi, Delhi, India | Professional Profile | LinkedIn
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Malthi SS shared this#SoftwarePM role #evolution - Traditional PM role skills - Problem solving, Customer empathy, Domain knowledge, Analytical mindset, Stakeholder management, Product Sense & Taste, Judgement , Agency, Outcome driven, Communication (A) ML PM role skills - A + Data, AI/ML basics, Evals, Analytics -B GenAI PM role skills - A + Data, Guardrails, Eval, Cost , ROI, Tokenomics - C Agentic AI PM skills - A + B + C + AI fluency, Agentic workflow design, system thinking, Governance, Operator, Context Engineering, Memory, Harness….- D Forward Deployed PM - A+ B +C +D + Sales, Pre-sales, Deployment .. This is a loosely defined role of a PM evolution. How does one prepare for it. Check out our latest course details starting 19th September The fundamentals of AI product thinking cannot be learnt from YouTube videos. It is collaborative and collective wisdom built with like minded practitioners https://lnkd.in/giih76x5 SparkProd Consulting Private Limited
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Malthi SS shared thisIt has been more than a week since demise of Khadim Batti, co-founder and CEO of WhatFix and I am still processing the news and the fact how unpredictable are our lives. Initially when I read the news, it was just shocking. I have met him only twice and that too in social events, however the warmth and the humbleness of the person was contagious. This has been so evident in the posts that I have read in last week from anybody who has crossed path with him whether it is his colleagues, investors, industry friends, fellow founders and the endless list of people like me whose lives he has touched. I heard him first at an event in 2024 and was enamored by his articulation and depth of knowledge. I had just started my podcast and hardly had any subscribers. I wanted to invite him as a guest but was not sure if he will respond. I took the leap of faith and reached out to him on LinkedIn. This was the time when WhatFix was going through the fundraising process. In the midst of all these, Khadim promptly responded and given that my podcast was purely product based, suggested to interview their Head of Products, Kapil Jaiswal. We did go ahead and I had a great conversation with Kapil. The stories of their WhatFix journey was an integral part of the discussion. The way Khadim treated "people" irrespective of their level, age or background is most humbling. It is rightly said that that after meeting a person, the most important thing you remember for a long period of time is "How they treated you". Khadim, you leave a legacy behind you. May you rest in peace wherever you are now. PC - YS
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Malthi SS shared thisThe best possible gift for a teacher on Teacher's day is to get such heartfelt messages from her learners or get a 5/5 feedback rating for a course delivered. I received the feedback for an online course on IIM Udaipur - Executive Program in Product Management where I taught #ProductDiscovery, #PMF, #ProductDesign, #ProductExecution to an amazing bunch of experienced professionals coming from diverse background. Was glad to see 5/5 on most of the sessions.
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Malthi SS liked thisAn evening to reminisce with some fantastic people and we all had few things in common- craziness , passion to build and hustling Amazing event with eminent speakers on variety of topics by Swati Awasthi and AMRIT RAJ at The Great Product Festival It was fun catching up with my learners from my AI PM course. Swati Sharma Suchitra Ravichander Raghu Lalitha Ramani K session was very powerful and as expected she was surrounded by attendees for a long time. Blessed to have worked with her and mentored by her Super stoked to have met Ritika Chugh Adithi S. Deeksha Anand Nitin Pulyani finally in person Always a pleasure to meet Vaishnavi Devi Sandeep Balaji Malavika Lakireddy Pleasure to connect with Abhinav Gandotra Sreevally (Sree) Pasumarthy Shalini Dayanidhi Vishwajeet Jonnada,CSPO® Himajaa Indukuri
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Malthi SS liked thisMalthi SS liked thisMy first Dreamforce in the books — and San Francisco delivered. 🌉 The scale of this event is something else. Thousands of customers and partners, all locked in on one theme: becoming the Agentic Enterprise. Spent the week at the Tableau Next booth and sessions with my team, and the energy was real - steady footfall, sharp questions, and genuine curiosity about what agentic analytics actually looks like in production. Here's my honest take: if you're already a Salesforce customer, getting started on Tableau Next isn't optional anymore, it’s the obvious next step. It's the industry's first agentic analytics platform, built to help every org move from data to decisions, faster. And it doesn't matter which Salesforce cloud you've invested in Sales, Service, Marketing, or Field Service. There's an analytics app built on Tableau Next ready to plug in and accelerate your AI-powered decision-making. Grateful for the conversations, the customer stories, and the reminder that we're still early in this shift. Onwards and upwards. 🚀 Jayanth Kumar Gundlapelli Lokesh Tripathi Mathi Ezhil Sundararajan Sudhanshu Goel Crystal Hoyer Harold Schellekens Raghav Ravichandran Twisha Mehta Skip Sauls Elif Tutuk Umair Rauf Manish Gupta James (Jim) Pan Yugandhar Reddy Boyapally Dipashree Ghoshal Bhavna Sharma Sarah Morton Venkatakrishnan Jayapal Srividhya (Srivi) Agandeswaran Aditya KochharAditya Kochhar Satya GorintlaSatya Gorintla Santosh Pendap Emma Annand Chris Monahon Paul Ekeland Greeshma Vijayakumar #Dreamforce #DF26 #TableauNext #AgenticAnalyticsPlatform #AgenticEnterprise #Agentforce #Data360 #SalesCloud #ServiceCloud #MarketingCloud #FieldServiceCloud #Salesforce
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Malthi SS liked thisMalthi SS liked thisIt was great to moderate a GCC Round Table on " Reengineering the AI Native Enterprise- The Evolving Role of GCC CTOs" at Nasscom AI Confluence yesterday at Bangalore. It was a great, candid, fun filled conversation amongst cross sectional leaders. I thoroughly enjoyed the discussions and my take on what I heard is as under : 1. For the next three years, it would be prudent for the GCCs to consider intake early career talent with problem solving, critical thinking mindset along with tech and narrative building capabilities. Build domain and contextual knowledge on them internally. 2. The issue of System Accountability when an autonomous system causes a significant production failure, is evolving 3. In general, CTO organization could own the Context Architecture, Not Just the Model, Programmatic Controls Over Bureaucratic Review, Manage Infrastructure Economics and help organization Shift the talent from Coders to System Architects Thank you Ramkumar Narayanan Shalini Sankarshana Vaishnavi Prasad Radhika Dorairajan Sivakumar Selva Ganapathy and others for the participation. Thank you nasscom Sumbul Saleem Ankit Bose Sangeeta Gupta for the opportunity. It was a great learning experience and perhaps, consuder repeating the session in other GCC locations too Srikanth Velamakanni Sandeep Dutta Srabani Ghosh Sheenam Ohrie Lalitha Indrakanti Sameer Dhanrajani Pankaj Rai (He/Him/His) Siva Kumar Padmanabhan Richpal Choudhary Praveen Kona
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Malthi SS liked thisMalthi SS liked thisA bug sits in your backlog for 3 days. An engineer finally opens it, spends 2 hours just finding where it's coming from, then writes the fix. What if the "finding" and "proving" part was already done before an engineer touched it? That's why I built PatchPilot — an AI agent that hunts down bugs, fixes them, and proves the fix works before a human ever opens the PR. Here's the part most AI coding tools skip: proof. → Give it a bug report in plain English — or let it scan your codebase and find bugs nobody's even reported yet → It traces the actual root cause, not just where the symptom shows up → It writes the fix — and writes its own tests to check it → It runs those tests on the broken code first, to prove the bug is real → Then applies the fix and runs them again, to prove it's actually fixed → Only then does it open a PR No "trust me." Every fix ships with before/after proof. And here's the line I won't cross: PatchPilot never merges its own code. A human reviews and approves every single time. AI can write code that looks correct without being correct — so the judgment call stays human. The payoff for a team: → Bugs caught and fixed in minutes, not days → Engineers review finished, proven work instead of hunting for root causes → A PR that comes with its own evidence takes minutes to review, not hours This isn't about replacing engineers. It's about giving them a head start — automating the slow, repetitive grind of debugging so their time goes to the decisions that actually need a human. Built this while pursuing my MBA (Digital Enterprise Management) at IIM Udaipur, MBA DEM (One-Year Full-Time Program), drawing on 4 years of QA automation experience at Infosys. Would love to hear how your team currently handles the "bug sits in backlog" problem — curious if this resonates. 👇 cc Samir Kumar Mishra Sharath Haikadi Malthi SS #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Automation #MBA #ProductManagement #cisco #accenture #openai
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Malthi SS liked this**I’ve started to believe that flexibility is one of the most underrated enablers of discipline.** For the longest time, I thought being disciplined meant sticking to the plan. Workout at 7 AM. Never miss a class. Follow the routine exactly as planned. But life doesn’t work that way. - Some mornings are packed with work. - Some days start early. - Some evenings get completely taken over by meetings or family commitments. And I realized that if my discipline depends on doing something at a fixed time, it becomes very easy to break. My fitness journey has taught me that if I am flexible in my routine then I have a higher chance of staying disciplined and be consistent I have a non-negotiable goal to stay active and take care of my fitness But the time doesn't have to be non-negotiable. If I can't work out in the morning, I do it later in the day. If I don't have an hour, I find 30 minutes. If a planned workout isn't possible, I walk. The commitment stays constant. The time, duration and approach can change. And that flexibility has actually made it easier for me to stay consistent over the long term. This applies far beyond fitness - to learning, work, personal goals and even building products and teams. **Be rigid about what matters. Be flexible about how you get there.** Prashant Arora - thanks for bringing in the flexibility quotient
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Malthi SS liked thisMalthi SS liked thisFamCare: how we designed AI into a family health-coordination app The problem- A healthcare adherence crisis hiding in plain sight. India treats adherence as the patient's problem, when, for chronic conditions, it's really a family coordination problem. 84% of hypertensive Indians don't take medication as prescribed. India's 60+ population is doubling to 347M by 2050, with ~70% depending on family for daily care. Yet tracking doses and chasing refills falls on one person, managed manually, every day. No hospital app or EHR solves that. That's the gap FamCare targets. How AI is woven into the product: 1. OCR onboarding- scan a medicine strip, auto-extract dosage. Under 90 seconds to first reminder. AI removes effort at the point of entry. 2. Predictive refill- reasons over consumption pace + delivery lead time to alert before a pack runs out, not on a fixed calendar. This is the product's "aha" moment. 3. A relationship graph, not a database- care activity modelled as who's caring for whom, deepened by real family data over time. A reminder UI can be copied in a sprint; this can't. 4. Intelligence is Phase 3, not Phase 1- validate the coordination loop first, build the care graph next, add the AI Care Assistant only once there's real consented data to ground it. 5. Compliance shaped the AI, not the reverse- scoped against DPDP/ABDM; no diagnosis chatbot, no data monetisation, until legally cleared. The AI product management layer underneath: Gate AI on data readiness, not model readiness Design the metric before the model- our North Star (doses tracked-and-confirmed per family, per week) is built so a single-user account can't inflate engagement Validation gates- SUS 68+, PMF ≥40%, before each phase unlocks Guardrails before capability- compliance and scope locked before the feature list The real lesson: the hard AI product decision isn't "what can we automate"- it's "what should we wait to automate until we've earned the data and the user's trust." In healthcare, that discipline is the product. Also, Special thanks to Malthi SS Ma'am for her invaluable support and guidance throughout this journey APK in the following link- https://lnkd.in/dK-qXTJ6 #AIProductManagement #HealthTech #FamCare #Entrepreneurship #IIMUdaipur #DEM
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Key Talent Award
PayPal
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Top 100 PMs in India
Product Folks
Rated as one of the top 100 PMs in India
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Orange Flower Award 2020
Womens Web
For my articles on Women causes
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EVE program recipient - Leadership program
Societe Generale
Underwent the prestigious Leadership program for APAC. Identified as a potential women leader to drive change in the culture
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Spot Awards
SAP Labs India
Spot awards in 2011-2012
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