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Writings on leadership, inner work, and what it means to lead a life that matters.

“Feeling Grounded at work” Whoever is happy, will make others happy too. – Anne Frank I picked this up based on my conversation with my best friend who is from Japan. She revealed to me that in the USA, it is common to not feel grounded at your work. The toxic culture of hire and […]

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. – Steve Jobs Career breaks should not only be accepted, but they should also be encouraged. We should remember that one wants to grow personally, professionally, financially, and spiritually.  It is healthy […]

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“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” – Sheryl Sandberg Mother as a leader “Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we […]

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1 – Tell me about yourself. I have versatile experience in product and program management. I stumbled into product management when I worked on my first startup Neuf Consulting. I did not know at that time that I was doing product management but I was building my tool, doing my research, and helping to be […]

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1- What do you think are the most difficult parts of Technical Program Management? Ever-changing technology and increasing technical complexity Data and information management and security standards Keep up with the trend with the latest technology, programming languages, cloud and infrastructure Communicating with engineering and technical staff and translating that in simple language for stakeholders […]

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1 – How did you work with engineering and QA as a Technical Program Manager? When I worked at ABC as a TPM, I managed a team of engineers, which included the QA team as well.  I managed a team under the program while I also worked with the team at a centralized processing center […]

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1 – Talk me through how you managed the roadmap for your previous product. To manage the product roadmap, I would focus on the following four points. 1) High-level objective of the organization 2) Identify relevant metrics 3) Customers 4) Prioritize When I was the product manager and co-founder at Neuf Consulting, I worked on […]

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1 – Give me an example of a time when you did not meet a client’s expectations. What happened, and how did you attempt to rectify the situation? When I worked at ABC, as a program manager, due to my technical skills and trust that I built with my client, I started getting more complex […]

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1 – Explain when you experience conflict with agile. When I worked at ABC as a program manager, I learned that our client had a classic case of adopting agile at their own convenience and that made it inefficient. One particular case of conflict that I noticed is that they had a proprietary application, which […]

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1 – How have you had an impact at your previous company? I see myself as an entrepreneur and consultant, which means I believe in working with an agile mindset and Scrum framework to have periodic results. I was hired as a project manager at ABC. I managed 20+ personnel and 20M+ contracts onsite at […]

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