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Siddharth Sharma

One Simple Trick for Better Planning

One Simple Trick for Better Planning

99% of orgs don't do this. In a previous post, I started talking about Nailing the Quarterly Plan. The thing about planning is that it only makes up half the game. A fact that often goes unnoticed is that planning, in and of itself, is a necessary but

Nailing the Quarterly Plan

Nailing the Quarterly Plan

Gantt masti time.

Bhel-puri code

Bhel-puri code

From the dawn of the age of computing, humans have been telling computers to do things. That has never been the problem. A stack of punch cards can instruct a computer just fine. The problem is, and always has been the human comprehension of these programs. Because until recently all

The Dashboard Nerd Guide

The Dashboard Nerd Guide

Dashboards are like teeth. Strong, white teeth indicate overall health and viability of an animal. And beautiful, useful dashboards indicate the health and viability of an organisation's information systems, which these days is the health of the whole org.

Herding Cats

Herding Cats

One of the defining characteristics of a well functioning product org is discipline. And discipline necessarily entails getting people to do things one way and not another, which as we all know, can be famously difficult when dealing with programmers. Some have likened the organisation of the efforts of programmers

The Annual / Quarterly Plan

The Annual / Quarterly Plan

Months of hard work can save you days of planning.

Information Wants to be Free

Information Wants to be Free

There is something magical that happens when project management dashboards start to show the way to the goal. The teams become self-directing and in complex and chaotic situations, self directing teams are a super-power. But you can't get there without a correct information architecture.