Articles by María Leal
Tech fundamentals for Product Managers
Technical fundamentals for PMs through a booking journey: frontend, backend, APIs, data, architecture, cloud, security and releases, tied to product decisions.…
What is an API Product Manager
What an API Product Manager does: discovery, developer experience, API roadmaps, metrics and lifecycle decisions, illustrated with an inventory integration.…
Non-Functional Requirements: Measurable Examples for Product Owners
Turn expectations about speed, availability and access into measurable requirements, with explicit test conditions and evidence for an order-details page.…
Backlog Refinement: Questions to Uncover Technical Dependencies
Follow a delivery-address change through the systems behind the screen. Questions for Product Owners to clarify scope, assign investigations and prepare upcoming work.…
Technical Debt in the Backlog: How to Compare It with New Features
Follow a promotion case to turn a technical proposal into a backlog decision, compare options and review whether the intervention reduced the original constraint.…
How to Prioritize Bugs as a Product Owner: Severity, Impact and Urgency
Compare payment, tracking and campaign defects to separate severity from priority, choose a response and explain what other work will wait.…
Acceptance Criteria: Practical Examples for Product Owners
Work through discount and API integration examples to write acceptance criteria, clarify failure cases and distinguish the Definition of Done.…
How to Read a Software Architecture Diagram as a Product Manager
Follow an order through a checkout diagram to understand responsibilities, payment dependencies and what the drawing cannot tell you about the system.…
Webhooks, APIs and Polling: How Updates Reach Your Product
Follow a pending payment to compare webhooks with API polling, including delivery delays, duplicate events and recovery when an update does not arrive.…
Deployment vs. Release: What Product Managers Need to Decide
A checkout promotion can be deployed without being available to customers. Follow its release to understand feature flags, gradual access and recovery decisions.…
