by Prabhakar Gopalan It’s February and if your organization follows a calendar year (Jan-Dec) cycle for employee performance evaluations, chances are, you have completed your 2010 assessment and filled out [ … ]
Conway’s law and organizational design for cloud computing firms
by Prabhakar Gopalan Conway’s Law It is worth recalling Conway’s law (first published 1968) for this discussion: Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure [ … ]
ProductCamp: The Unconference TEDxLocal for Product Leaders?
This past weekend I attended ProductCamp Austin #6 (PCA#6). How do you describe ProductCamp Austin? Imagine a TEDxLocal for Product Leaders in an Unconference format and open to all – with [ … ]
Ousting the middle manager in PM/PMM organizations
After reading an interesting post in HBR (The End of the Middle Manager), I’m compelled to offer my response. I find the HBR post timely and noteworthy. Here we go. [ … ]
New Year’s Resolutions – A few simple ideas
Three New Year’s Resolution Ideas Time to come up with a few New Year’s resolutions? Here are three simple ideas. 1) Read well and read a lot I like to [ … ]