Heights of desparation have finally got me blogging again!! There was a time a few days back during the exam days, I was frantically waiting for the long awaited vacations, but now I am beginning to realise how it must have been for those in solitary confinement in the war days!!The horrible Delhi heat coupled with the constant urge to do absolutely nothing at all has made things worse. I went to Palika the other day just to return back home in an hour....IN AN HOUR PEOPLE!! Its not that you go to a place like Palika and just return with some blank cds!! The heat has caught up with me so I finally decided to restart blogging (and scrapping) until the temperature reduces a bit(28 C). More to come..comments pls!
Working with a product company, one of the bigger dilemmas facing the Product team is what to build based on the backlog of product items. Listening to a Harvard lecture podcast online recently, I came across a concept which helped me clear this dilemma. It simply asks a question- what is the job that your product is hired to perform? Ideas for the product you are building can come through various routes. We're going to lose this customer if we don't incorporate this now, this is something the CEO really wants to see in the product, it's been sitting in the backlog forever etc. But a very good way to go about prioritizing what goes into the product is to find the answer to the question- what is the job that your product is hired to perform? Imagine the product to be an employee who is hired for a particular profile. Now there are certain roles and responsibilities or KPI's which will define whether this employee is fit for the post. The same logic will apply to the p...
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