System engineering: It's the challenge, it's the fun!

Yesterday I took my twin boys in a cab for the first time, and I got to experience the "Mother's Perspective" of the features I had worked for.

1. Even though it's not a right practice to enable child lock in cabs, I had to do it myself. I wished I had a mother's wand to open the doors from inside, in case of any kind of emergency!

2. The red coloured emergency button was the victim of the naughtiness of my boys. The driver was worried that the police would catch him if the button was pressed. As a mother, at that moment I deeply wanted the feature to not work.

As a System Engineer of these features, I never had envisoned these use cases in my consciousness.

This experience made me realize yet again that System Engineering is the extremely critical piece of the product development cycle. It's the challenge. It's the fun.

Cross-industry marketing!

The perfect way of executing the cross-industry marketing!

While Amul India has been doing this since many years, Swiggy seems to be in the race too now! Hats off to their creative marketing minds and thanks for spreading the positivity.

BYOD of the automotive industry!

Such a nice looking, innovative and apt-to-the-need phone docking arrangement this auto rickshaw driver has! The raw application of the famous BYOD of automotive industry (Bring Your Own Device). 

Happy mothers - #ParenthoodDiaries 45

 Today after feeding kids I went to them to see if they had their pillow, blanket etc to sleep. One of them asked me "Thumne khaana khaaya kya" (Have you eaten food?). I said no. He said, "Jao, khaana khaake aao" (Go, eat food and comeback).

By the time I ate and went, they slept together.

Moments like these make happy mothers!

Innocence to sarcasm - #ParenthoodDiaries 44

 We recently took kids to an event organized by their dad's company. That event happened in a function hall, but for kids' easier understanding we said that it was their dad's office. Also, they saw some videos of my office colleagues dancing during a recent event in our company.

These two incidents registered so much in their mind that:

- One day when I told them I would be going to office, one of them asked me "Office dance karne jaa rahe ho kya tum?" (Are you going to office to dance?).

- Today we took them to a near by Ganesh Temple and one of them asked "Ye Ganesha ka office hai kya?" (Is this Ganesh's office?).

The innocence with which they question is my favorite part of it. I hope they will ask lot of questions before the innocence gets converted to sarcasm!!