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Usually in one's career sometimes they are asked to work on somehting which they are not motivated to work for and it's not as challenging as other projects. Then I usually try to align the work they doing to not what I or compnay would gain form it rather what is their benefits from it. Also, at teh same time acknowledging the downsides of that project like it;s legacy systems and may not give them greenfield field projects opportunities for you but they are bread and butter and their continuity is important and  usually these projects generate better impact which is were performance reviews are very helpful 

Vision is to work on the things that bring value to our business and let us innovate without being mired in administrative or technical tasks.

1. automate everything that can be

2. quality is non negotiable, shift it left

3. put administrative stuff in the hands of support users

It’s a bit of a fight to keep things out of the backlog that users want but that directly contradict the product vision. Example might be a few less clicks to do a thing, but the vision is to do away with that thing entirely. That takes vision that is shared both with the team and support team and stake holders.

C: our quarterly planning process was too long, with multiple sources of input and no single source of truth. I was responsible for my area, but this impacted all areas in the org. I decided to take ownership of redefining the process. 

A: I did a deep dive into the various input sources & teams involved. 

I then created a proposal outlining a streamlined planning process end-to-end, including roles & responsibilities, tooling, and communication plan

I assigned designated owners for each backlog-

PM - product backlog

EM - engg backlog

TPM - horizontal backlog

Instituted regular grooming sessions - TPM, PM, eng - prioritize on big rocks -> alignment w. company objectives

Defined a prioritization framework - align with. objectives, customer/financial impact, critical path, any alternative?

Instituted monthly cross-org sessions with partner teams - current & upcoming roadmap, flag requests early

Regular TPM syncs with horizontal TPMs -> alignment on upcoming initiatives + current initiatives

Define top OKRs around groomed backlog/big-rocks list

Communication plan: proactive comm around big rocks, daily comm during planning cycle regarding status

Source of truth (Jira)- multi-layered board,  created custom dashboards & components

Obj ->  area initiative ->  top OKRs ->  milestones

Team level OKRs -> separate view comprising of all teams

aligned w. org leaders

1-pager: breakdown by theme, top above the line & below the line items

R: cut planning lead time by ~40% (3w->1.5w),  enabled right prioritization of cust needs (ex: enabled teams to flag GDPR req in advance), evangelized process to other teams

Long term - replicated this process across other teams

I am pretty passionate about Reddit. In a world where media is biased and polarized, Reddit threads gives me a sense of how local communities view the world. It helps me get grounded in reality of what different cadres of people are thinking by browsing different communities. Reddit is very engaging, as in, you can comment and instantly receive feedback. While there is a lot of "internet hate" and "misinformation" in Reddit communities and threads as well, looking at a wider spectrum of communities within Reddit, especially the differing ones, helps you form a less polarized and biased opinion. I prefer contributing by asking open-ended questions and if I have an opinion, posting it respectfully as a question. I also respond to scientific minded questions that I have qualifications to answer. By selectively responding and answering questions with some due diligence, I keep the communities I am a part of thriving and truth-based.

I broke down the tasks into micro tasks and defined a mini roadmap for tasks. It helped me to priotitise the work. Time needed to complete a task, implementation effort and impact on business helped me to prioritise the tasks

I had a tense sprint review where design and product disagreed on priorities. To help visualise trad-offs and impact, I facilitated a quick impact vs. effort exercise. It shifted the tone from debate to joint decision-making.

In the Meraki integration project, the supply chain process required significant optimization of the entire flow. To achieve this, most of the shipping-related process needed to be modified. However, the team lacked sufficient time to complete the work because the planned use of an adapter did not work, requiring me to redesign the flow.

With limited time remaining before system integration testing (SIT), the cross-functional teams and other tracks were ready to test their code, and management was unwilling to postpone SIT and Cycle 1 testing. Since there was an additional round of SIT and Cycle 2 testing planned, I decided to proceed with the changes that the team had already completed. We migrated the completed code to the test instance and communicated that only Phase 1 of the changes would be released initially, while the remaining changes would be delivered during Cycle 2 testing.

I ensured the Phase 1 delivery was designed to avoid impacting the end-to-end flow, allowing the other teams to proceed with testing their portions of the code. This approach ensured that other teams' deadlines were not affected. I also informed the cross-functional teams that the OTM and GTM changes were completed, and the remaining shipping-related code optimization would be delivered before Cycle 2 testing, along with the next round of SIT.

By taking this approach, I ensured that complete testing was not impacted and that the project stayed on track.

I had to facilitate a conflict between a Product Manager and other stakeholders in the project. I had a conversation about it separately with each party involved to try to understand the situation, causes of conflict and a potential solution. It was crucial to get the perspective of both parties, essentially the conflict was around the fact that the PM was extremely overwhelmed so didn’t have the bandwidth to handle all questions and requests that were coming from the ops teams that were trying to raise feature requests based on customer feedback. I have later on suggested a dedicated process to raise feature requests through JIRA, containing all the mandatory information and assessed priority.

of all the apps on my phone, i probably would find difficult to go through my day to day life if i didnt have Whatsapp on my phone. I really admire the way Whatsapp as a platform has evolved. It was probably one of the main reasons why people in India were first exposed to Internet and smartphones in the first place. It enabled simple communication between peers, creation of micro communities in the form of groups, removes barriers of language by introducing voice chat, voice calls and video calls, and now have also introduced payments and B2B marketing tools. So without this app, it would be really difficult for me to stay in touch with my family or work group of even the business i do right now. If i were to improve on something, i'd love to see how the whatsapp AI evolves. Currently it has a very limited functionality - maybe write some texts, answer simple questions, draw some images etc. Since this is one of the most important app for me on my phone, i'd like it to evolve as a personal assistant for me, taking notes, blocking calendar meetings, finding things on internet etc