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Vivek Rajasekaran

Vivek Rajasekaran

Every Team Every Step Doing Their Thing

One definition of a successful business is “an organization following repeatable processes leading to reliably positive outcomes”. In tech…

Mar 30

Every Team Every Step Doing Their Thing

Mar 30

Vivek Rajasekaran

How to Build a Software Feature Faster? A Guide for Product Managers

In ambitious tech companies, there is always a demand to build and ship products and features faster. For most features, I would argue that…

Feb 19

How to Build a Software Feature Faster? A Guide for Product Managers

Feb 19

Vivek Rajasekaran

Who owns the timeline — Product or Engineering?

For any important tech-driven initiative, there are three key aspects that are reviewed by org leaders — impact of the initiative, cost…

Feb 18

Who owns the timeline — Product or Engineering?

Feb 18

Vivek Rajasekaran

Building the Blocks — Approaching Behind-the-Scenes Product Management

In larger tech organizations, a big chunk of the work done by the product and engineering teams are not directly visible to end customers…

Jan 4

Building the Blocks — Approaching Behind-the-Scenes Product Management

Jan 4

Vivek Rajasekaran

Navigating Software Projects across the Bermuda Triangle — Lessons from How Big Things Get Done

Imagine this: You’re deep into a massive project, your original timelines are a distant memory, your budget got bloated but still managed…

Nov 2, 2023

Navigating Software Projects across the Bermuda Triangle — Lessons from How Big Things Get Done

Nov 2, 2023

Vivek Rajasekaran

The missing Hand in creating a truly robot-powered economy

A surprising effect of the exponential increase in computing power and advances in software technology is that the automation of…

Apr 9, 2022

The missing Hand in creating a truly robot-powered economy

Apr 9, 2022

Vivek Rajasekaran

Falling together

One of those “wait, that can’t be true” things that we learn in school physics is when we are taught that both heavier and lighter objects…

Feb 14, 2022

Feb 14, 2022

Vivek Rajasekaran

Bringing things together so they stick

Interactions are hard to create. And harder to control.

Nov 13, 2021

Nov 13, 2021

Vivek Rajasekaran

Lessons from spreadsheets for product design

One of the remarkable things that I have noticed in my career so far is the persistence of spreadsheets to manage business processes. You…

Nov 4, 2021

Lessons from spreadsheets for product design

Nov 4, 2021

Vivek Rajasekaran

What a product manager should do to create the right system architecture

I recently finished reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. I had been looking for a summary on the ideas behind…

Oct 9, 2021

What a product manager should do to create the right system architecture

Oct 9, 2021

Vivek Rajasekaran

Vivek Rajasekaran

Long stories on stuff I know (product management and tech businesses) and short stories on everything else.

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