As a Product Manager, your job is to document and clarify and share every bit of thinking with the rest of the team. It is not just the spec, but how it evolves, why it evolves the way it does, how each interaction with the team and potential users, shifts it a bit. I like… [Read more…]
April 24, 2012
I am currently reading 42 Rules of Product Management. It is a great read and I highly recommend that you buy it. Notes: It is product management’s responsibility to identify customer problems worth solving. It is engineering’s role to identify technical solutions to those problems. Research helps you understand: 1. Your customers,2. Your competitive marketplace, 3. Competitors, 4.… [Read more…]
March 7, 2012
Employees Use Multiple Gadgets For Work — And Choose Much Of The Tech Themselves This brings up many interesting thoughts and questions: From now till 2016 when the shift happens, what happens to the existing productivity apps that people use? Microsoft already introduced One Note on Mobile. Will they do Word, Excel, PPT etc on… [Read more…]
October 21, 2011
Quotes from Steve Jobs: You need a very product-oriented culture, even in a technology company. Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together. Otherwise, you can get great pieces of technology all floating around the universe. But it… [Read more…]
September 17, 2011
Tangibility gets on the same page. Until a thing becomes tangible, multiple people can have radically divergent interpretations of the same conversation, ideas, and experiences. Tangibility brings people from all disciplines and backgrounds together around the same object, drawing, animation, or whatnot, and highlights where your visions converge and diverge. That is why wireframes, prototypes,… [Read more…]
September 13, 2011
As a part of Nasscom Mentor program, we get to meet several companies. Most of the companies are in the software service business. One of the regular advice I give them is to have a small product initiative. Why? A service company comes across several customer problems and provides solutions. This gives them knowledge and… [Read more…]
August 18, 2011
From Infostreams alerts for Python django-facebook 3.0.5 django-facebook 3.0.5 neo4jrestclient 1.4.4 neo4jrestclient 1.4.4 Object-oriented Python library to interact with Neo4j standalone REST server django-urlauth 0.1.8 django-urlauth 0.1.8 Django application for user authentication with key in hypertext link django-actualities 0.1.0 django-actualities 0.1.0 A django blog app uwsgi-manager 0.1.0 uwsgi-manager 0.1.0 Python tool for controling the uWSGI… [Read more…]
May 20, 2011
Nvidia Snaps Out Snappier Tesla GPU Coprocessors Nvidia Snaps Out Snappier Tesla GPU Coprocessors By Timothy Prickett Morgan 22 Get more from this author GPU chipmaker Nvidia knows that it has to do more to grow its Tesla biz than slap some passive heat sinks on a fanless GPU card and talk up its CUDA parallel-programming… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
The weekend marathon event In50hrs is behind us now. But the ripples continue. A few blog posts, tweets and retweets, facebook pictures and comments are still trickling in. Here is what I really like about the event. I liked the name and the tag line – ”Can you take an idea and give it life… [Read more…]
March 18, 2011
One of the fastest ways to make money is by tapping an under-mined business niche. Some of the biggest success stories in history come from people who went looking for an answer to a problem, and when they couldn’t find one, created the solution themselves. Were they the first people to have the problem? No.… [Read more…]
April 26, 2012
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