by Gopal Gopalan | Dec 8, 2020 | Chow
Samson worked for five years and proved to be a good developer and a tech lead before being chosen to lead a project, with a lot of technical unknowns and challenges. Samson was very excited to lead the project and rolled his sleeves up and executed the specification...
by Gopal Gopalan | Dec 8, 2020 | Project Management
One of the key lessons I have learnt over my working life is that solutions for many issues come from unexpected sources. When you are challenged by a major issue and you are struggling to solve, someone from outside, who is not involved in the same way as you, can...
by Gopal Gopalan | Jul 27, 2020 | Chow
When someone shows their neighborhood photo, how do you know the condition inside their house? Gary is the engineering head of a software team, whose financial software platform has been successful with multiple clients over a decade. The team has some great...
by Gopal Gopalan | Jul 27, 2020 | Leadership
How the Coronavirus threat affected a small 25 year old software firm which has over the years remained a team of about 50, focused on building niche intellectual property in select domains and perform some special financial services – a few observations. The...
by Gopal Gopalan | Feb 24, 2020 | Chow
TechInnov Inc., is a 32 year old corporation, who pioneered many revolutionary technological innovations, throughout their corporate existence. The founder CEO ran the company for 16 years until a sudden illness took him away from the company and he was replaced by a...
by Gopal Gopalan | Feb 24, 2020 | Leadership
Many times we have organizations going through crisis when a powerful leader steps aside, for whatever reason. The resulting situation could be one of many: Many in the second line of command clamor for the position and believe they are the most eligible...
by Gopal Gopalan | Aug 31, 2019 | Chow
Shiv has been engaged by a technology product firm as a performance coach, specifically to help a couple of high performing technical professionals who excel in their job. Management is afraid that the two individuals, who are extremely smart with technology and are...
by Gopal Gopalan | Aug 31, 2019 | Coaching
Early every morning, I go for a walk in a road, which goes around a hospital. Invariably, I see this girl rushing to catch some bus. She runs wearing a high-heeled shoe and for some reason, I felt that I needed to tell her that she should wear something better as...
by Gopal Gopalan | May 1, 2019 | Chow
Chris is a project manager in a successful product company and has been managing a team of 10 developers, who deliver a high end analytical platform, used by hundreds of users. Chris and his team are aware of their accomplishment and take pride in their methods. While...
by Gopal Gopalan | Dec 3, 2018 | Chow, Project Management
Peter is a project manager, who has delivered many software projects in Airlines ticketing and reservations successfully, on-time and within budget. He just signed up to deliver an analytics platform for revenue enhancement, which involved storing and analyzing...
