Engineering Manifestos

We go on a journey with Engineering/Technology leaders to understand their approach to Engineering strategy, viz. how they figure out what is needed from the Engineering team to help their company win, and how they apply that to their Engineering teams. Each company context (company, business, marketplace, competitive environment) at a given point in time is unique. In order to succeed, a set of choices within Engineering on Objectives, Culture, Organization and Process & Systems needs to be made. We seek to gain an understanding of the tools and practices/processes for building teams and products to help companies win.

Engineering Manifestos is a technology podcast hosted by Raj Palani, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Raj Palani hosts Engineering Manifestos, a technology show with 13 episodes published.

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  Mohan Umapathy : Building AI-enabled Teams & Products

  May 6, 202632 minS0

  <p>Mohan Umapathy, Founder & CEO, Qikr AI, sat down with me to share his experience building AI-enabled Teams & Products.<br/><br/>5:45 Leveraging AI to improve teacher productivity, student learning effectiveness, and administrator intervention oversight<br/>11:30 Frequency of change in tools and methodologies for building with AI<br/>15:18 Leveraging AI to improve Engineering/Product/Design Team capacity<br/>17:47 Adapting to AI Tooling changes by constantly revisiting your Engineering Process<br/>22:53 Skills needed to build with AI (Identifying & providing oversight/guidance when the tool output doesn't meet your system requirements)<br/>26:12 Current Challenges in building with AI (Level of autonomy that can...

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  Deepak Sheoran: Building AI-enabled Teams & Products

  Jul 25, 202529 minS0

  <p>Deepak Sheoran, Founder & CTO, DwellFi, sat down with me to share his experience building AI-enabled Teams & Products. As a hands-on technology leader Deepak has valuable insights to share.</p>3:58 Adoption & Budgeting Framework for AI Tools6:34 AI-enabled Requirements Capture/Design/Review Process: How to get it right?9:45 Codifying your Engineering Process to leverage AI Tooling effectively12:25 Why you need a QA-first mindset to leverage AI effectively?18:50 AI-enabled Testing & Automation21:20 AI-enabled Deployment & Operations (DevOps/SRE)23:40 Building an AI-enabled Product Architecture (MCP-First, Intention-driven UI, Cross-Feature Automation, Multi-agent framework)

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  Building Teams and Products with Pat Cullen

  Dec 20, 202428 minS0

  <p>Pat Cullen, Former SVPE, Carrot Fertility, sat down with me to share his principles and practices for building Teams & Products. At Carrot Fertility, Pat grew the Technology team from 3 employees to over 75, spearheading Engineering, Information Security, Data Privacy, Product, Program Management, and Data functions. Pat used the "Rule of 3" framework to share his learnings across Planning/Roadmapping, Building Engineering teams and cultures, and Ensuring Execution.</p>4:20 Overall approachStart from a place of curiosity and empathy. Understand your stakeholders' needs/points of view.Reflect on your individual beliefs/points of view.As long as you have the right people, there...

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  Building Teams & Products with Deepak Sheoran

  May 20, 202427 minS0

  <p>Deepak Sheoran, Founder & CTO, DwellFi, sat down with me to share his principles and practices for building Teams & Products.</p>2:20 Areas a CTO/VPE needs to focus on during the early days7:20 Details in the daily status updates that he focuses on8:05 Secret sauce for 5-10X productivity gains over the competition8:52 How to leverage AI for your Engineering team11:11 How to go about making technology choices14:16 Framework for Engineering bandwidth allocation19:00 Framework for Engineering Goals25:10 Things he would have done differently

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  Building DevRev with Dheeraj Pandey

  Nov 19, 202223 minS0

  <p>Dheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder & CEO, DevRev, and Co-Founder & Former CEO, Nutanix, sat down with me to share his wisdom on Company Building, Customer Discovery and Building Culture & Teams.</p>3:08 [Company Building] Building relationships with people, viz. end users, buyers, customers, employees, partners3:08 [Company Building] Building a brand based on values6:40 [Customer Discovery] Begin with your passion, conviction and skill before trying to find an underserved market8:28 [Problem Hypothesis] Poor end user experience/ease of use, Expensive/lumpy Go-To-Market/Distribution13:36 [Customer Discovery] Unearth desires in addition to pain points and needs16:04 [Building Teams] Look for underserved people (rebels, people who want...

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