Engineering Manifestos

By: Raj Palani
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  • Summary

  • We go on a journey with Engineering/Technology leaders to understand how they figure out what is needed from the Engineering team to help their company win, and how they apply that to their Engineering teams.

    Each company context (company, business, marketplace, competitive environment) at a given point in time is unique. In order to succeed, a set of choices within Engineering on Objectives, Culture, Organization and Process & Systems needs to be made. We seek to gain an understanding of the tools and practices/processes for building teams and products.
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Episodes
  • Building Teams & Products with Deepak Sheoran

    Building Teams & Products with Deepak Sheoran
    May 21 2024

    Deepak Sheoran, Founder & CTO, DwellFi, sat down with me to share his principles and practices for building Teams & Products.

    • 2:20 Areas a CTO/VPE needs to focus on during the early days
    • 7:20 Details in the daily status updates that he focuses on
    • 8:05 Secret sauce for 5-10X productivity gains over the competition
    • 8:52 How to leverage AI for your Engineering team
    • 11:11 How to go about making technology choices
    • 14:16 Framework for Engineering bandwidth allocation
    • 19:00 Framework for Engineering Goals
    • 25:10 Things he would have done differently
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    27 mins
  • Building DevRev with Dheeraj Pandey

    Building DevRev with Dheeraj Pandey
    Nov 20 2022

    Dheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder & CEO, DevRev, and Co-Founder & Former CEO, Nutanix, sat down with me to share his wisdom on Company Building, Customer Discovery and Building Culture & Teams.

    • 3:08 [Company Building] Building relationships with people, viz. end users, buyers, customers, employees, partners
    • 3:08 [Company Building] Building a brand based on values
    • 6:40 [Customer Discovery] Begin with your passion, conviction and skill before trying to find an underserved market
    • 8:28 [Problem Hypothesis] Poor end user experience/ease of use, Expensive/lumpy Go-To-Market/Distribution
    • 13:36 [Customer Discovery] Unearth desires in addition to pain points and needs
    • 16:04 [Building Teams] Look for underserved people (rebels, people who want to make a difference, people who can think visually, people who can execute)
    • 21:24 [Building Culture] Embracing a Design Culture
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    23 mins
  • Building ArmorCode with Nikhil Gupta

    Building ArmorCode with Nikhil Gupta
    Mar 27 2022

    Nikhil Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO, ArmorCode, sat down with me to share the story of pursuing his crazy idea to start ArmorCode during the modern world’s worst pandemic.

    • 4:19 [Provenance] Why Nikhil embarked on the ArmorCode journey (WHY "This Problem", WHY "Now", WHY "Him")?
    • 7:10 [Pitch] Customer Pain-points & taking a "People-first" approach to solve them
    • 15:00 [People] Company Culture & how it keeps evolving
    • 23:02 [Customer Discovery (Process)] Navigating the delicate line between drinking your Kool-Aid & not getting discouraged by customer feedback
    • 26:38 [Customer Discovery (Process)] "Art" of digging deeper to uncover "true" customer feedback on your "Problem Hypothesis"
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    32 mins
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