PinnedEaaS — Can Empathy Be a ServiceThere was an old joke said by a customer I worked with. “One day you will have EaaS, where E stands for everything. Platform, hardware, license, developers, oil drilling machines- everything can be rented as a service”. …Artificial Intelligence5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Pinned6 Points to Make Your Tech Demos BetterDemos have been around ever since the first person who invented the wheel sold it to the first other person. The art and science of orchestrating a demo is its own industry today (late night TV ads anyone?) Customer demos are also commonplace in IT. In my stint so far…Software Development5 min read
PinnedA Great Developer’s Secret to Better QualityI am not the great developer mentioned in the title. I have had the good fortune though, to have worked with many great developers throughout my life. This is a little story about what I learnt was a great developer’s secret to delivering excellent quality, consistently. In one of…Softwarequalityassurance4 min read
May 10Cracking the Data BA Code — A CheatsheetIt feels good to be back to writing. It seems like forever really and so much has happened- had a kid who is all of 9 months now and released my first album. Whew! In that time, I played the role of a data product manager and understood that there…Bigdata5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jul 14, 2021An EnviableTrait of Great AnalystsI am not the great analyst that I am going to talk about. Sure, I aspire to be one and I am hopefully somewhere on the way. But I do have had the fortune to have worked with GREAT analysts. But who is an analyst? I would like to move…Software Development4 min read
May 24, 2021ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorkers Against Covid-19ThoughtWorks and ThoughtWorkers Against Covid-19 Let me first hope and pray that you, dear reader, are doing well. These are troubled times and hope is one of the tools we have in the fight. Apart from hope, it is also resources and personnel which many of us have voluntarily deployed…Covid 194 min read
May 11, 2021Why Your Written Requirement Is Not Your ScopeThis should be a bit obvious by now, especially if you have followed any of the other stuff I have written. Information that is written down gives us a false sense of assurance that we have successfully “captured” the requirements. Everyone sits at ease and kicks back, waiting for development…Agile3 min read
Apr 30, 2021The Best Way to Learn an IT SystemOften as business analysts or product managers or project managers, we are thrown into projects when things are already running. Or even new projects can need us to understand the client’s existing system. And I am quite sure that you are no stranger to the kind of documentation or the…Product Management4 min read
Apr 24, 20215 Signs You Are Doing bAgile (instead of Agile)Have little time and would watch a video instead? Click on the video link below! I don’t think I can say that I have been bred and brought up in the waterfall style of things. Hence I will probably not appreciate what the waterfall vs Agile difference feels like…Agile5 min read
Apr 20, 2021Great Design needs Great Empathy — from temple stalls to MacBook“A thing of beautiful design is a joy forever” The greatest designs that I have seen are so simply beautiful and elegant and more important than all, useful. It just brings joy to everyone! This little epiphany comes from a small incident today. My mother-in-law and I visited a local…Design3 min read
