"Here are some strategies to mitigate the effects of organizational and architectural dependencies on a team's work.
Automation
Where possible, automate repetitive tasks, and include appropriate controls to ensure safety. For example, automate deployments, building in all needed safety and compliance checks, and let teams perform the process themselves, rather than having them back up in the Ops team’s queue.
Standardize processes
Even if you can’t automate a process, make it happen the s"
Mukul P. - "Here are some strategies to mitigate the effects of organizational and architectural dependencies on a team's work.
Automation
Where possible, automate repetitive tasks, and include appropriate controls to ensure safety. For example, automate deployments, building in all needed safety and compliance checks, and let teams perform the process themselves, rather than having them back up in the Ops team’s queue.
Standardize processes
Even if you can’t automate a process, make it happen the s"See full answer
"In a situation where I feel stressed out, stuck, and lost, I prefer to take a step back and reflect upon what is causing me stress. I list down the factors and try to first acknowledge that it is okay to be stressed, then I try to find the shortest step I could take which is in my control to destress myself.Then I to unravel the problem and find a solution. If need be, I go out and discuss my problem with friends, colleagues and my mentors depending on the nature of the problem. Most importantly"
Simii V. - "In a situation where I feel stressed out, stuck, and lost, I prefer to take a step back and reflect upon what is causing me stress. I list down the factors and try to first acknowledge that it is okay to be stressed, then I try to find the shortest step I could take which is in my control to destress myself.Then I to unravel the problem and find a solution. If need be, I go out and discuss my problem with friends, colleagues and my mentors depending on the nature of the problem. Most importantly"See full answer
"Communication to stakeholders and replan with the early delay identified and also ensure the root cause is done as to why delay has happened."
Pradeep S. - "Communication to stakeholders and replan with the early delay identified and also ensure the root cause is done as to why delay has happened."See full answer
"In my role as a Product Owner, I was developing a platform for a logistics company.
As a PO and that too of a digital agency, my work was mostly before-end-to-after-end, it would start from pitching, strategy, product management, launch, funding deck prep.
In mid of the product management cycle, the client starts adding pressure to deliver way before the deadline, as they had found the PE firm that conceptually was ready to start funding discussion, since this was not scoped before the start,"
Umang S. - "In my role as a Product Owner, I was developing a platform for a logistics company.
As a PO and that too of a digital agency, my work was mostly before-end-to-after-end, it would start from pitching, strategy, product management, launch, funding deck prep.
In mid of the product management cycle, the client starts adding pressure to deliver way before the deadline, as they had found the PE firm that conceptually was ready to start funding discussion, since this was not scoped before the start,"See full answer
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"I would understand the real cause of it. Is it really a time issue or motivation issue or skill issue. If we know the actual root cause, we can better deal with it accordingly.
If it is a time issue, I would understand the work done by the team and related impact. Influence them to work on high impact work. If their work is also equally important, I would offer help from my team to heavy lift and they can just guide my team.
I would partner with respective team owner to get more resources for f"
Deepak S. - "I would understand the real cause of it. Is it really a time issue or motivation issue or skill issue. If we know the actual root cause, we can better deal with it accordingly.
If it is a time issue, I would understand the work done by the team and related impact. Influence them to work on high impact work. If their work is also equally important, I would offer help from my team to heavy lift and they can just guide my team.
I would partner with respective team owner to get more resources for f"See full answer
"MTBF is Mean time between failures. This is measured to figure out how reliable a system is by what is the gap between 2 failures. (Total time elapsed- Down time)/No of failures"
Kavya C. - "MTBF is Mean time between failures. This is measured to figure out how reliable a system is by what is the gap between 2 failures. (Total time elapsed- Down time)/No of failures"See full answer
"Alright kiddo, imagine you have a big box of LEGO bricks. Each brick is like a tiny tool that helps you build something special. Now, think about a game you love to play on your computer or phone. The people who make those games want to help other people make things that work with their games, like new levels or characters.
So, they create something called an "SDK," which stands for "Software Development Kit." This is like a special set of LEGO bricks and instructions that they share with other"
Srilaxmi C. - "Alright kiddo, imagine you have a big box of LEGO bricks. Each brick is like a tiny tool that helps you build something special. Now, think about a game you love to play on your computer or phone. The people who make those games want to help other people make things that work with their games, like new levels or characters.
So, they create something called an "SDK," which stands for "Software Development Kit." This is like a special set of LEGO bricks and instructions that they share with other"See full answer
"When I was working as a project manager in the QVC, I was working with the marketing and content management team. We had two sets of customers, one was planners (a team that plan the product portfolio and decide which product should go at what time and the other team were called schedulers, this team add the commercial between each product description clip. Our team was responsible to create a UI for them to use the existing product clips from each episode and use them to create new episodes. T"
Kunkun D. - "When I was working as a project manager in the QVC, I was working with the marketing and content management team. We had two sets of customers, one was planners (a team that plan the product portfolio and decide which product should go at what time and the other team were called schedulers, this team add the commercial between each product description clip. Our team was responsible to create a UI for them to use the existing product clips from each episode and use them to create new episodes. T"See full answer
"The user awakes Alexa by saying the "Alexa word"
Device starts recording audio from the user, and streaming it to the Alexa Cloud Service
The recorded audio stream is sent to the ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) system
ASR returns the words and the order of the words in the audio stream, and sends this information to NLU (Natural Language Understanding)
NLU returns the intent of the audio stream, and sends it to Alexa Skill
If the intent triggers a "play" directive (e.g. turn"
Kai W. - "The user awakes Alexa by saying the "Alexa word"
Device starts recording audio from the user, and streaming it to the Alexa Cloud Service
The recorded audio stream is sent to the ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) system
ASR returns the words and the order of the words in the audio stream, and sends this information to NLU (Natural Language Understanding)
NLU returns the intent of the audio stream, and sends it to Alexa Skill
If the intent triggers a "play" directive (e.g. turn"See full answer
"Excellent job Roshan, really liked the explanation. Which software were you using to explain the system design diagrams?"
Krishnan S. - "Excellent job Roshan, really liked the explanation. Which software were you using to explain the system design diagrams?"See full answer
"On the topic of personalisation the main complexity comes from stitching the data together so that you can create a curated and hopefully personal experience for the consumers (e.g. product offer that match user's interest).
Since the existing technology we use, especially on the app, do not support some of of the BE foundations needed to personalize omni-channel the main complexity is in integrating with the BE services especially creating connected data pipelines. My main contribution is in"
Delyan P. - "On the topic of personalisation the main complexity comes from stitching the data together so that you can create a curated and hopefully personal experience for the consumers (e.g. product offer that match user's interest).
Since the existing technology we use, especially on the app, do not support some of of the BE foundations needed to personalize omni-channel the main complexity is in integrating with the BE services especially creating connected data pipelines. My main contribution is in"See full answer
"Clarifying Questions:
Is this for business travel, personal travel, or both?
Are there any particular objectives that we want to focus on?
Think about why Facebook would want to do this
is it because they are thinking about building an external-facing travel product, and want to test it on Facebook employees first?
Facebook employees work hard, so they want to make sure that their employees are taking the vacations they need to optimize performance
List user types
employees trav"
Greg W. - "Clarifying Questions:
Is this for business travel, personal travel, or both?
Are there any particular objectives that we want to focus on?
Think about why Facebook would want to do this
is it because they are thinking about building an external-facing travel product, and want to test it on Facebook employees first?
Facebook employees work hard, so they want to make sure that their employees are taking the vacations they need to optimize performance
List user types
employees trav"See full answer
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