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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies By Reid Hoffman: Reading Notes
Why I picked this book? My 6th book of the year was Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman. I have been listening to Reid’s Masters of Scale podcast for quite some time now and found the mentions of the concept of “blitzscaling” rather interesting.I still think that it’s simply…
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Acceptance Tests: The Best Medium of Communication Between Stakeholders (if done right)
It’s a nice pleasant morning, and you have just entered the office. You greet your friends and grab a cup of coffee. You check your email and there is a new story assigned to you. “As a customer, I get my usage logs backed up” This is where is fun begins. Communicating Requirements A…
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Organization Archetypes And The Concept Of Market-Oriented “Solver Teams”
Organizations which designs systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structure of the organization. In other words, how we organize our teams has a powerful effect on the software we produce, as well as our resulting architectural and production outcomes. Thus, in order to get a fast flow of work from…
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Practical Problem Solving Framework: Inspired By The Toyota Way
We all will agree to a certain point that having a system/process for anything reduces chances of errors. As an engineer or someone people look forward to propose solutions to problems it’s beneficial to have a framework in place to solve problems effectively. Recently I was reading The Toyota Way, and it suggested a framework to Practical Problem…
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Estimation Peril: How To Estimate Software Projects Effectively(or How Not To Lie)
Consider, you are a rockstar engineer and you are given a task by your favorite person, your project manager, to show some new fields in the dashboard. As usual, you are asked to estimate it as soon as possible. You think that well, seems like a quickie and you are tempted to estimate it a…
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E-Summit ’17 IIT Bombay — Experience
E-Summit is the flagship entrepreneurship event organized by IITB. The two-day annual summit promises to be an amazing meeting ground for industry experts, business leaders, investors and entrepreneurs and of course, students, many of whom are aspiring entrepreneurs. I attended this event in its 2017 edition and had mixed feelings on how the whole thing…
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The Blue Ocean Strategy : How To Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. The whole idea of The Blue Ocean Strategy is to create uncontested market spaces that creates new demands and make the competition irrelevant. The book describes Red Oceans as known…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : Reading Experience
The Japanese motorcycle maintenance guide says “ Assembly of Japanese bicycle requires great piece of mind”. There is a thing about everything you build, including bikes. If you build it with non-serene mind, then you build your problems into it. The book takes you on a cross country bike journey that will teach you mind…
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