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Published: 2017-09-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbR8ktW6ijQ
good evening %HESITATION ladies and gentlemen I'm here today to share with you my journey my journey as an advocate of my journey as Watson who has been in the corporate put away IBM and they begin to for a long time eighteen years yeah I've brought MBA students %HESITATION images institutions %HESITATION and I thoroughly enjoyed the process of being a passionate beaches it comes naturally to me
and that's something happen often eighteen years when my kids were very small school that I was dishing moved away far from the city it went into the outskirts and I had predicted this issue at a big decision of Acadia morph unfortunately by circumstances I was pushed into the corporate world so there is a party for the first time I got a card could pick I got
a corporate big as a product manager in the mighty company till then I was just you still dizzy product management from a textbook alright and here I was thrown into a situation of being a real time product manager and the designation much to my agony was technical product manager I had to be an economics and then be impeached in marketing I was hardly big because so
I didn't know what I was getting into when I went into the carpet would the person who recruited me okay unfortunately for me rammed into a heart surgery when I joined the good of the company and I have no one to guide me on what I was supposed to do as a technical product manager and the what Biggie goes all is there behind me and I
was one day however going to deal with that good because I was put on a project manager who was supposed to give me an orientation of what I'm supposed to do and the first question is they ask me when I entered the carpet but the first day is so do you have experience in product management and I'm like no so he does a shrug and he
walks away okay so that makes my job a little more tough a week after that I was introduced to a product manager sitting in the US this is a multinational company that I'm talking about so this product manager Gimme a download of the product to which I would be attached to it was I had done application product and he gave me what was on as a
functional specification document and he's told me you'll play it on with application and you look at the functional specification document and you kinda figured out what this application will do for the claims and we can take it forward from this so I started this Johnny of mine all alone sitting in the cubicle a teacher for eighteen years student now okay and a student without a teacher
so all I needed to do was to systematically look at the functional specification which kind of big bands how that because who would work and also look at the you out on that he gave me when I look at the application and see if that is sync between the function specific issue and the app still my agony again I followed that what the things were very
different okay this functional specification defying the whole application should work but that when I went and started to look at the application the application was doing something gets I got jittery so I thought back and look at this man the project manager does win the company for nine years and ask him can you please expand this to me and he says I don't know so what
do I do so what do I do so I ripped the whole big because a multinational and Mike corporate man who's sitting in the US I had a week to live in the my I get to connect with him find out why it is a small synchron uncial suspicions dog and that negation so I'm going to be gone by this day well that's part of your
job as opposed a bit the spec based on what I don't have any claim complexion I don't know what the customer wants home I suppose our biggest prick without the customer have it's election he said that's not part of real job your job is only dubbed it the spec someone give me an idea this said one of the application there's a question mark on the right
hand side gonna it's the help the help that they knew what the biggest supposed to do so I think of a question mark I kicked on it and didn't tell me anything so then I said who created this question then they said their good bunch of guys sitting in like Ghana they called the pick lettuce those days we had they had last been so I walked
up to the lady there and they said can you please tell me your head is not helping me but what do you mean go ahead click on it so she cooks on it and it only goes me okay from Europe you'll go then from there you would go there but also going there what happens then is not sick so I asked her how long I don't
know how they're packaged supposed to be hip she said well that's all this I what and what is the basis on which it on the head you said the spec because the functional specification document so shot I am in a situation as a new employee in my organization in the new culture with the average age of my colleagues being great if life and I'm forty and
the calling me by my first name all eighteen years I've been married I win professor that we adopted and hit of this printer by you at all are based on the move up into I'm a give me a break yet has told us like some so I mean an alien culture I mean a million in the sea I am an alien with a million people okay
the door guy situation for me I learned and move on all right back off I'm not going to back off I'm going to move on so I read the whole day and then I see what unfolds off the six in the might what I saw that big astounded me there is a bunch of developers who are talking with the product manager sitting in the US or
what the telephone call taking the client requirements not big on the piece of paper next morning when the quarter scum and the gift that use of paper look Otis who does the will of the act crumpled paper and troubling how will the functional specification dark which is a dog used but best of cordis technical writers ever be a bit how will it ever be updated how
did you get pretty laid me ever know what the biggest supposed to do so I started none as a student all over again each one of my teachers what brand of failures grand things just started reading but he has also sometimes after a few months bust the plan monitors with dogmatic you to me asking for requirements in the application for example there would be a a
request saying that I need to generate reports from the petition and that report should come in the form of a PDF format but the bottom line okay no I am not technical right I don't know what it is and bones of cost for creating a borderline or so I go to the border and say Hey can you do this this is his second book how long
will it take for you band is another ten days clay pots once upon a couple of this so when you have not picked McCain you got a bunch of kids labor party in order it's going to be a little tricky so what I could do is I don't believe them and you know cost a bit of the client put then this our bill the learning on
my own and I just blew the learning on my own I walked another project rich similar work was me that then the kids would be from this project and I asked them if someone to do this so I don't lose bottom line I wish they would pick so I don't see anything that would produce I can make of the day I would be within the project
management sheep this how reset Ben bishop would notice that I know I'm learning alright so this did you I think is very critical students for anyone who would who has studied this very does but the one long for you to move from industry to industry much faster than what observation bid every time you moved to New investing this new learning and on this new learning you
have to be stored and all over again alright is a book about I don't know I can see on it I'm assuming it is there so can can we see the brick just please so when I talk about being distorted in my personal life to have been a student right and I continue to be a student I live in a plot of land but I was
small hosts I have a neighbor was built in one story from Blix out of which the story is an unauthorised okay my phone bills me to grow a batch of guided with Lois and I was not able to accomplish that thanks to my name there's no money some late coming into my house and nature doesn't like that kind of an environment alright so I became a
student once again how do I draw my batch of that in how do I sure one I made during I've what cannot be cured must be endured as one of us stocked but I said I'm going to hear of this so I learned through trial and error through experimentation to bus students as a student off gardening to blow my own small garden and I accomplished this
rebellious reserve my bloom off last summer I've also been a student off my own can we see the next light baby in life when you go to ups and downs that opinions of high is impeded the lord's and giving the speech beaded of Los your childhood how I met your childhood %HESITATION what he's saying activities that you picked up as a child which give a lot
