Capers, thoughts, bloopers, of a maveric

The past week has seen the unfurling of the debate between the NRAI  and Zomato  over the deals and benefits of Zomato Gold. The debate has reached such a crescendo that the #logout campaign has started. There are certain pro's of the business models and where there are pro's there are bound to be cons of the business model. And No this post is not about what is happening..... As my interest's lie in Productizing and Business cases, There are two sides to this story and here are a few interesting perspectives: Zomato gold is open to anyone who has the app installed. Zomato gold comes at a extra-premium to the app user; of say Rs 400 - Rs 1800 based on the location you are at.  I am not sure as to how much a hotel has to pay Zomato for being on the gold list, this is what I have got off the web "Restaurants also enjoy additional visibility across the Zomato Platform with the Gold tag and Gold filter" The Zomato enterprise in all their wisdom, have pivot

As part and parcel of my professional life, I have come across numerous instances wherein the Higher-up's have gone to varying length's of extremes asking me to come up with "Estimates", Yes Accurate and Precise estimates. And when asking for the same, there have been very-many instances where-in the Grey's in the "To-Be-Requirement-List" have outnumbered the whites 1:1000. Yet the demand has always been the same "Give me the estimates". In some places I've had the luxury of time, In some places I haven't had any. The story does not end after estimates are given, after a period of time has elapsed, folks from the Quality Assurance team, the Quality Systems team, come knocking, this time for metrics. Along my journey through all of this, I have gone ahead and picked up some tricks-of-the-trade, that I would like to share with you, so that the estimations that I give out end up being as Accurate(closeness to the t

Pic courtesy Anna Bradley's books I have been a LinkedIn faithful from the time it started out in India. I still remember; in the good ol' days we had to wait for someone to send us a invite to gain an entry into Linkedin. I have had the experience of experiencing most of the avatar's that Linkedin has gone through. There is a nice link here that documents the timeline: A Brief History of Linkedin Now that I've been using Linkedin for so long as a user, A few weeks ago I thought, hey let me put on the hat of a "Intelligent Product User" or let me say a "Product Manager", what would I like to see More of as part of Linkedin features and what would I like to see Less of as part of what I see everyday while going through the site. I would call this "personalization" and if in case that is already available as part of being a Linkedin Premium Member, then feel free to skip this post. And no this is not a rant ! If some aspects of t