https://www.pmlens.si/blog/ Practical essays on product management, startups, product leadership, AI products and enterprise security by Shailesh Soni, a product leader with 20+ years of experience. en Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0530 https://www.pmlens.si/blog/validate-before-you-build.html https://www.pmlens.si/blog/validate-before-you-build.html Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Startups Shailesh Soni Most startups don't die from bad engineering. They die from building something nobody needed badly enough to pay for. https://www.pmlens.si/blog/customer-obsession-is-a-practice.html https://www.pmlens.si/blog/customer-obsession-is-a-practice.html Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Product Management Shailesh Soni Every company says it is customer-obsessed. The ones that mean it have rituals that make it hard to forget the customer. https://www.pmlens.si/blog/from-problem-to-product.html https://www.pmlens.si/blog/from-problem-to-product.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Product Management Shailesh Soni The hardest part of product management isn't the roadmap. It's converting a vague, emotional complaint into a problem a team can solve. https://www.pmlens.si/blog/leading-product-managers.html https://www.pmlens.si/blog/leading-product-managers.html Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Leadership Shailesh Soni What I've learned leading PM teams: the job isn't to have the answers, it's to raise the quality of every decision the team makes. https://www.pmlens.si/blog/shipping-ai-customers-trust.html https://www.pmlens.si/blog/shipping-ai-customers-trust.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0530 AI Shailesh Soni Demos are easy. Trust is hard. Grounding, evaluation and honest UX are what turn an impressive AI demo into a product people rely on. https://www.pmlens.si/blog/securing-ai-in-the-enterprise.html https://www.pmlens.si/blog/securing-ai-in-the-enterprise.html Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 Security Shailesh Soni AI adoption is outpacing AI governance. Here are the questions security leaders are asking, and what good answers look like. https://www.pmlens.si/blog/on-prem-to-saas-lessons.html https://www.pmlens.si/blog/on-prem-to-saas-lessons.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0530 SaaS Shailesh Soni Moving a product to the cloud is not a hosting change. It's a business model, operations and customer-relationship change all at once.