Personality of R&D Professional

During my long years in the industry, I have interacted with R&D community world wide and have managed R&D activities in diverse domains, primarily centred around electronics, hardware, embedded systems, software, … I have seen how successful R&D Professionals behave, what personal traits and attitudes are required to be successful in R&D, what personal traits are not conducive to R&D though they maybe highly desired in other functions. R&D activities require a unique blend of resourcefulness, problem solving abilities, creativity, strongly supported by attention to details and disciplined approach to project management. I recently delivered a seminar at PMI, Pune Chapter. My presentation focused on how R&D activities are different as compared to other functions, what personality traits would make a successful R&D Professionals, what is antithetical to R&D, how to structure an R&D team and Project…



For those interested in the complete presentation, it is available here:



http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dhnskt7c_1gzwrrtgn

Mind set of a developer

I have been thinking about what distinguishes “Developers” from the rest. In the developers, I am including all who create something starting from a concept.

• Product developers, who develop a working product starting from a document called specifications, some times very sketchy
• Community developers, who create schemes, projects, institutions
• ….
  
  These people could have come up with a number of reasons why it won’t work. Instead, they go about discovering those conditions, solutions and initiatives that will make it work.