Background
Swati Garodia has served as a senior product and strategy executive for more than two decades, transforming, scaling, and driving long-term growth across multiple complex product organisations. Throughout her career, she has recognised a universal truth: a business unit’s growth strategy is only as fast as its product team’s core capabilities.
To solve this challenge at scale, Swati has partnered with Tarigo multiple times across different organisations over the last ten years. Each time, the goal has been the same: to systematically upskill her teams, navigate massive technological shifts, and embed a repeatable, high-performing product culture.
The Challenge
The Legacy “Feature Factory”
In one of her flagship transformations leading a massive $1B+ global enterprise software portfolio, Swati inherited a complex suite of mission-critical B2B software. Despite a history of corporate acquisition, the business unit had maintained a deeply entrenched, founder-led culture for 25 years, leaving its product lines siloed and un-modernised.
The immediate existential threat was managing a high-stakes transition of a multi-million dollar portfolio from legacy desktop architecture to a native-cloud, SaaS, and data-oriented commercial model.
However, the organisational reality presented a major roadblock: there was no established strategic product management culture. Traditional business analysts (BAs) functioned primarily as order-takers, feeding the engineering pipeline and focusing entirely on the technical quality of a release rather than market outcomes. To execute a modern SaaS strategy, Swati didn’t just need a software migration; she needed an organisational mindset migration.
The Strategy
Designing the Capability Architecture
Swati knew that tools and talent had to evolve in lockstep. She immediately injected fresh DNA into the organisation, hiring five out of seven new product leaders. Next, she modernised the product infrastructure and deployed enterprise tools to align the team around data-driven insights and clear performance metrics.
But tools and new hires are only as effective as the shared operational playbook supporting them. To scale this new methodology across a globally distributed product organisation, Swati partnered with Tarigo to co-design and execute a rigorous, 12-month upskilling and coaching program for 100+ product managers.
“Tarigo starts by understanding the problem and designing custom training solutions, rather than coming to the table with a standard playbook and saying, ‘Here’s what we can do.’ I find that a very effective model.”
The Execution
From Bootcamps to Product Surgeries
The 12-month rollout with Tarigo was structured to minimize daily operational disruption while driving rapid cultural alignment:
• Baseline Alignment: Tarigo initiated intensive product bootcamps and hands-on workshops to get everyone—from newly hired VPs to legacy business analysts—speaking the exact same strategic language.
• Real-World Interventions: To bridge the gap between theory and execution, Tarigo embedded weekly open office hours and live product surgeries. PMs brought their actual, messy roadmap challenges to the table, solving live business problems alongside Tarigo coaches.
This continuous feedback loop broke old legacy habits, teaching the team how to leverage product data and weekly NPS tracking to make rigorous, client-focused product decisions.
The Impact
Shifting from Release Quality to Market Value
The strategic partnership delivered exactly what the business required: a highly synchronized, outcome-focused product organisation capable of operating at enterprise scale.
By completely reshaping the capability profile of the 100+ person team, Tarigo enabled Swati to successfully de-risk the massive desktop-to-SaaS migration. Former business analysts successfully shifted into modern product managers who could autonomously leverage data to drive roadmap transparency. Ultimately, this transformation moved the organisation away from feature-delivery cycles and established the sustainable, data-driven foundation necessary to execute complex cloud strategies.
The Next Frontier
Building AI-Enabled Product Teams
As technology continues to accelerate, the partnership between Swati and Tarigo has evolved to meet the next generational macro-trend: AI. In their most recent collaboration, Tarigo has helped Swati build and scale AI-enabled product teams.
In the AI era, speed to insight is everything. Tarigo’s hands-on coaching shifts PMs away from traditional, slow-moving release cycles, training them to rapidly prototype AI concepts, validate assumptions with customers, and iterate based on real-world data.
“In the AI era, product management changes fundamentally. We no longer have the luxury of slow-release cycles, we need teams that can iterate at the speed of the market. Tarigo has been instrumental in helping our product managers evolve from backlog owners into agile innovators capable of rapidly prototyping and deploying AI solutions.”
