Kumaran and Deepak discuss the content from the book "Team Topologies". How communication structures within a teams impact the quality of solutions and software. Can teams really function like a 'microservice' ? What is low, medium and high bandwidth communication? How do we manage the cognitive load?   #informationtechnology #enterprise #podcast #podcastepisode #audio #etiunplugged   Links: https://teamtopologies.com/   Follow us on: https://etiunplugged.in    https://fb.com/etiunplugged https://www.linkedin.com/company/etiunplugged ..read more

Kumaran and Deepak discuss how the MVP concept, which has been around for a while, is being adopted by businesses. The executive leadership/board has a challenge understanding the MVP concept. There is a mindset issue. There is a misconception that a large project broken into small parts is the MVP, in fact it is a 'decomposed waterfall' . MVP is useful when the way forward isn't very well defined and limited exploration will provide the direction. Fear of failure that prevents people from adopting the MVP concept. MVP allows failure with minimum damage. MVP approach can be applied to any area ..read more

Kumaran, Deepak and Venkat share how they learn and keep themselves updated. No prizes for guessing youtube is a key source, followed by linkedin where you can follow thought leaders. Facebook is another place where you can follow technical magazines. Subscribing to email distribution lists has its problems of sifting through junk email. Listening to long form podcasts is also a good way to keep yourself updated.   Links to sites mentioned in the podcast:   Facebook: https://fb.com/Verge YouTube Channels:  https://lnkd.in/dZPej3jT - General business  https://lnkd.in/dH2d7ca ..read more

Kumaran and Deepak discuss how to do a high visibility application launch. What should the technology teams focus on? Kumaran suggest a 'zoom in' approach to find out what is important. For a large consumer facing application it is important to take care of not signed up users. How to control the feature explosion? The technology team needs to take into account the small things and not get confused by the big picture. 'zoom out' to find opportunities. When you are worried, 'zoom in' and execute.    #informationtechnology #enterprise #podcast #podcastepisode #audio #etiunplugged Foll ..read more

Kumaran, Venkat and Deepak discuss the prevalent industry buzzwords and veer towards discussing how engineering mindset can possibly interfere with seeing the whole picture. Being intentional while finding solutions is very important. Kumar shares an example of a hospital and blood bank. Venkat shares his experience of providing solutions to aquaculture farmers.   #mindsets #solutions #designthinking #informationtechnology #enterprise #podcast #podcastepisode #audio #etiunplugged   Follow us on: https://etiunplugged.in    https://fb.com/etiunplugged https://www.linkedin.co ..read more

Kumaran, Gowtham and Deepak discuss why should or should not use an open source tool. Open source is not free in the enterprise context. Cost of supporting, updating and troubleshooting  the tool needs to be considered. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) implementation need to evaluated with a clear understanding of the benefits vs. cost. Kumaran shares an example calculation for return on investment (ROI). RPA tool can turn from a cost reduction tool to a profit generating tool. When you think of automation think of  three  factors  that you are trying to address 1. Toil&nb ..read more

Jiffin, Kumarn and Deepak are challenged to find the differences between a software product and a software service. Jiffin shares his perspective as a Product Manager. How he transitioned from being a service owner to a product manager. Repeatability, reusability, profit margin are the words associated with a product. Kumaran takes an example of his  own application. Thinking from the user's and usability perspective can turn a feature into a "micro-product". Is SaaS (Software as a Service) a product? Increasingly it is difficult to differentiate between a service and a product. A gulab ..read more

Kumaran, Deepak, Venkat and Nishanth discuss why operations should be considered while developing software. IASA cover operations under "IT Environment". If DevOps is done right then IT Ops should not an issue, however business ops is often ignored. In the true spirit of DevOps Kumaran has given the Ops responsibility to his Dev team. Developers added more features to the product they had to operate it. For small teams this is more practically feasible, for a large product or services company a lot more needs to be considered. The approach of designing the software changes when developers do ..read more

Kumaran, Deepak, Venkat, Raja and Nishanth What does IT outsourcing really mean? What the different aspects of outsourcing? How is "Body shopping" different from outsourcing? Impact of outsourcing on development projects. Does the work of the project manager or an architect change? Can you really increase speed of your projects by outsourcing? Venkat explains the issues of understanding the outsourcers capabilities. It can take two weeks for a contractor to be aligned to the project team's context. Raja clarifies the differences between outsourcing and project management issues. The three per ..read more

Kumaran, Deepak, Venkat and Nishanth discuss the value of cloud PC in the enterprise. The typical scenarios where cloud PC  makes sense. Kumaran shares his perspective for developers in his team using Apple Macs as their primary development machines. Venkat explores the option of providing remote employees with a standard dev environment. Nishanth explores a QA scenario. Provisioning of users during the pandemic is one successful scenario implemented by a lot of organisations using various options including cloud PC like services.   #remoteworking #cloudPC #remotedesktop #informatio ..read more