Munish Malik

Munish Malik

Lead Product Consultant and Product Coach, Equal Experts

Munish Malik is a Lead Product Consultant and Product Coach at Equal Experts. With over 17 years of experience, Munish specializes in product management and agile delivery across various industries. He has played a key role in helping organizations in building their product management capabilities through user-centric development, guided by design thinking and research-led techniques.

Munish organizes ProductTank meetups in Delhi NCR and Pune to foster a culture of community and learning in those cities. He has also been a speaker at prominent agile and product conferences in India, including Agile India, Agile Mumbai, and Product Tank events.

Session Title

Sandwiches, Trash and Doing the Little Things Right


Session Overview

This talk delves into trust, result obsession, little habits, and why we don't need a "dragon slayer" in our teams.

Successful transformations hinge on trust, as rushing behavioral or process changes without first building trust leads to resistance. Furthermore, fixation on results can subject the team to tremendous pressure, perpetuating a cycle of failure and stripping joy away from the journey.

He presents a case study and real-life instances to illustrate the importance of building trust, the consequences of overly emphasizing results and deadlines at the expense of process improvements, and the impactful nature of small improvements. In the transformation phase, small improvements often get overshadowed by flashy presentations, large-scale transformations, and dragon slayers. However, daily 1% improvements, while seemingly insignificant, can result in a remarkable 37-fold improvement over a year.