Management Toolkit
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Gamify Time Management
Sometimes life is too chaotic for one to make any sense. Although you are not over-worked or spending sleepless nights but still you find yourself in midst of a battlefield filled with conflicting priorities. Managing under such circumstances is not stress and sometimes can lead to conflict within team members as well. Among the time management… Continue reading
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Reflections By Steven Sinofsky
I chanced to read following article Steven Sinofsky on Building Your Product Team published on the MixPanel blog. It had some great insights which , I have captured for my readers and fellow companions who cross their path with product management. From the above blog “Steven Sinofsky is known as one of product management’s earliest champions.… Continue reading
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Qualms Of Product-Awareness
Product is a very generic term and changes its meaning depending on the context. As various stakeholders working to deliver an experience it is important to know how interactions impact your consumer space. This is more-over important for product managers operating in different context :- marketing versus technical product ownership. Every interaction with consumer in… Continue reading
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Choice of MVP : Evaluate Your Options
Many a times MVP(Minimum Viable Product) and what definition it carries get clouded with lot of factors. To start with , let me refresh couple of aspects of what a MVP(Minimum Viable Product) may stand for: “It is a core artifact in an iterative process of idea generation, prototyping, presentation, data collection, analysis and learning. One seeks to minimise the… Continue reading
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Make Process The Winner!
We encounter problems statements everyday and there are ‘n’ number of ways to solve them. In addition to this there is no good or bad way of solving them ! Over a period of time I have come to see that we generally get into conflict due to internal workings and although we do arrive… Continue reading
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Team Ramp-up Strategies
An easy tool to guide team ramp-ups by ranking initiatives Continue reading
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3P & Evernote
In one of my previous posts titled efficient collaboration , I had talked about using Evernote and Dropbox for getting head start in agile collaboration. I use a 3P model ( Progress , Priority , Problem ) limited to not more than 4 points per section as a note structure in Evernote for every team member to remain on top of their priorities and report… Continue reading
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Efficient Collaboration
We all have come across various companies that use shared drives & managers deploying simple XL sheets to have team members update their task list. With growing mobility and dispersal of working groups across geographies , it becomes very inefficient to access most of our data across platforms and systems on daily basis. Some obvious… Continue reading
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Bloated Duck Of Ideas…
While working through ideation process it so seems that river stream flows very fast and the rapids are furious when they come down on you , only to be gated by dams in form of viability and ability to implement them to achieve scale… Now this is more operational view of the idea itself ,… Continue reading
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The launch quandary
Often at times we have been faced with dilemma of launching products in market and when to bring it out of dock versus internal readiness. One would state every company has metrics and decision KPI that can help managers effect such decisions but reality is it remains a quandary!! & ever so more in start-ups.… Continue reading
About Me
Over 24 years of experience developing software to support multi-million dollar revenue scale and leading global engineering teams. Hands-on leadership in building and mentoring software engineering teams. I love History as a subject and also run regularly long distances to keep myself functional.
Everyday Reflections 