Kiran Gurumukhi - Technical Blog

Photo by Leonel Fernandez on Unsplash I heard the term MVP several years ago while working on a project that was too complex and too risky to begin with. We did not understand all the details when we started it even though the goals seemed achievable. Our vision was to bring out a product that was extensively thought through, one that would delight our customers and most importantly was quite superior to our competition. It was an outgrowth of our high expectations and confidence to deliver no matter what challenges exist. A big assumption was we thought we knew our customer very well.  After several months, we managed to finalize the feature specification, although bit halfheartedly. So many differing opinions to consider, people to convince, options to try out and risk mitigation made closure difficult. It was hard to make everyone happy. The development team wasn't either. Too many assumptions made. Several open questions as they worked out their way into the implementa

COVID-19 and Business Resilience Future is uncertain by its very nature. The key to business success, and perhaps even survival, lies in the ability to overcome and mitigate the challenges in tough times. The last two decades have seen multiple recessions in the world such as the dot-com bubble of the early 2000's, the 9/11 Recession in 2001, the housing market crash of 2003, the automotive crisis in 2008 and most recently the COVID-19 impact which has impacted economies all over the world. Can technology come to the rescue given that everything seems to be in a stand-still? Rise of the Pandemic The COVID-19 disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, when China reported a cluster of 41 cases with mysterious pneumonia like symptoms.  Late February saw the disease spread outside of China to South Korea, Italy, Iran and even the United States. As of April 18th, there were more than 740,000 cases in United State