Mentors have had an enormous positive impact on my life and the same can happen to you. Recently, I came to know about someone who wanted to move to a Product Management role. She had been wanting to do that for years, but not been able to. She got in touch with an experience product … Continue reading »
I have been working remotely with my office colleagues in the same timezone but 2,500kms away for about 2 years now. I work from Delhi and my office is in Bangalore. I have been visiting Bangalore no more frequently than once every 8 weeks for a week or two. Its tough. But there are quite a … Continue reading »
As a Product Manager, there have been a few instances when I missed out putting things down on paper. And later regretted that! I don’t want the same to happen to you. Few instances where I screwed up: 1) Publishing the notes / minutes of a meeting where a wireframe was discussed and approved by … Continue reading »
This is something I have been telling myself and have learnt recently. I think more than knowing when you should speak up and how you should articulate, whats important is to understand when you should NOT say anything. When you should just be a listener, observer. There are plenty of instances where I thought, I … Continue reading »
Do you know ? If yes, then feel free to skip the article and directly jump to the comments section and add your thoughts there. I really want to find an answer. For the rest of the article, I am just going to express some of my thoughts on this subject which may or may … Continue reading »
With being “connected” becoming so easy we tend to get addicted to checking our emails on the phone as soon as a new mail arrives or every few mins to every hour (or in that order) even when we are not “at work”. At a restaurant while having lunch with friends / family (or even … Continue reading »
When I started my own career in Management I practically had no formal / in-formal training about the role. Also, I struggled to find books, other educational material which was relevant to my role especially in the IT industry. This is the first book which focuses on new and aspiring managers in India in the … Continue reading »
In the world of IT, engineers usually grow into either 1) Technical managers with people management responsibilities OR 2) Technical Advisors / Architects working as individual contributors. Here the first set of roles do not necessarily need you to have a great technical prowess compared to an architect. Similarly, in an architect role, you need … Continue reading »
Challenges Your “things to do” list would be overflowing ALL the time. Even if you take no more things to do and just work on the current task list, it may take you a month to just wrap up those. This would lead to a constant prioritization loop. You would always be prioritizing on whats important … Continue reading »
I have been interviewing people on software design. I cant even remember in how many interviews candidates jump into designing the data layer as soon as the requirements of the software are provided. Only a magician can do this right. A normal engineer needs to think top down. The data layer is the foundation of … Continue reading »
