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  1. Part 2: Two Mega divisions at Ahsan

    Kabila on August 21st, 2009

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    This is the second part of the two mega divisions at Ahsan. Now it’s the turn of our project and product division heads to share their happiness and thoughts on achieving this position.

    First let us see what our Product division head, Mr. Shridharan has in store for us.

    1. First I would like to congratulate you for achieving this great position at Ahsan. How do you feel now?
      Thanks, I feel good… and now I’m in a position to adopt auxiliary responsibilities and fulfill the expectations of company needs.
    2. Let us start with a warm up question, your team is the biggest team at Ahsan, how do you manage it?
      Team size doesn’t really matter, when the team members acquire their responsibilities and are working towards the same goal. Earlier I worked with a single person and now my team has more than 50 members, anyhow it doesn’t make any difference.
    3. What are your product team goals?
       Our goal is to become a market leader in providing quality products in all domains.
    4. What strategies do you put forward for achieving those goals?
       We are currently formulating the strategies and would be happy to share once they have been finalized.
    5. In this new product leadership role, what is your greatest challenge?
       When we released our first product RAYZZ, we were met with less competition in the market world. But now it is very difficult to survive in the market. So, as of now, I can say, we have to raise AHSAN to become a Market Leader in product developments.
    6. Tell me about the most challenging business decision that you’ve made when you became the product head
       I am yet to come across one such situation. First step into my new role, we made a decision to release the product as Pro and Lite versions for iSocial, and we got a good response too.
    7. Can you please tell us the role played by your team members in the product development discussion?
       They always come up with great ideas to develop our products. In almost all of our products their ideas have been implemented to satisfy our customer needs. Consequently, we are releasing the updates and modules frequently for each product.
    8. What are the major lessons you’ve learned so for from the experience of being the project manager?
       Team management is not easy stuff; and it is not only controlling the people, we have to understand their capability and make decisions towards achieving our goals. If you are able to coordinate / share knowledge / guide your team members then it can be easier to manage the projects as well as the team.
    9. Would you like to share anything else with us?
       We believe the future of the IT industry will be one defined by the power of openness, whether it’s open source or standards. We have got some interesting products under development that look at the whole strategy of Ahsan. I think Ahsan is really well-known and now we’re addressing those capabilities in a broad range of products. Ahsan has a very experienced performance team that has worked for 8 years. Now this team is focused on Product development and some of the results as we have seen are very exciting.You are going to see some real breakthrough in performances in the subsequent years.

    This section presents the interview session with Mr. Rajesh, the head of the Project division.

    1. Congratulations to achieve this peak position in Ahsan, how did you achieve this position?
      Thanks. I think, you should ask the management.
    2. Can we have the name of your first project that you have started as a project division lead?
      I’m not quite there yet. Aravind is in the process of sharing details with me.
    3. This question may be sound silly, but we are eager to get an answer from you. Are you a strict project headJ?
      I think, you should ask the team
    4. What are the goals you have set for yourself before starting a project and your plans to achieve them?
      Always, the urge is to make the project better than previous projects, in terms of quality, and time spent on that. We try to achieve that by holistic approach, where every team member actively participate and collaborate.
    5. Share one of the best and worst moments that you have come across in the path of the project manager?
      Best moments are usually in where we can contribute and feel the ownership of the project. Worst moments are just the opposite of it where the work gets mechanical.
    6. How can you manage a varied work environment where there are many projects and priorities come at once?
      May try to invent a multitasking robot
    7. Meeting deadlines is a great headache for the team leads. How do you manage it?
      We apply previous experience in fixing deadlines, so that the deadlines are not unachievable. But, sometimes we get works that are new where we may not apply our experience to predict the deadline; in that case, we do some prototypes and pilot studies to predict the time frame.
    8. We found your team working even during special occasions. How do you motivate them to work at such a situation?
      On special occasions, we do not normally work—but we do involve in recruitment and tech sessions. As they provide leadership skills and also rejuvenating experience from normal day-to-day work, team may be willing to work at such occasions.

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