Product Thinking with Harish Achappa

In this episode, Harish Achappa KM shares

• Choosing mechanical engineering as a subject of study and getting into TCS engineering services
• Working on valves and compressors
• Getting into programming as part if his work
• The experience of having a paid vacation in Italy!
• How his interest in programming developed after starting to use C, C++ as a hobby
• Noticing differences in projects done at client locations v/s in India
• Working directly with users and feeding off the energy based on common questions
• Getting quicker feedback
• Understanding that some of the work cannot be done remotely
• Avoiding assumptions and getting clarifications in context
• Requesting to work in a development project
• Getting an opportunity to work on a public infrastructure project
• Learning the value and benefit of parametrization while programming
• Taking some time to find his feet in a fully software coding role
• His experience of taking up a product manager role, enabled by his ability to ask a lot of clarifying questions
• On product thinking, even for an enterprise solution
• His career advice
• Curiosity and willingness to learn: drive
• Consolidating the learnings
• Taking the responsibility for one’s frustrations
• Are you motivated to build, generate ideas or both

Harish is a product manager with over 23 years of experience; he has been a developer, boot-strapped a firm and been a consultant. 

You can reach him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/hachappa/