Building Rome(s)

Or How I Learned to Love Engineering Chaos and Ship Surprise & Delight

Welcome to Building Rome(s) by Aadil Maan, a bi-weekly newsletter on managing technology programs, and everything else I find interesting to talk about in tech.

A decades long journey successfully shipping massive software and hardware programs at Blackberry, Apple, Google, and nowadays at Nike, has left me with a lot of thoughts and ideas on what it takes to build everlasting surprise and delight.

With this newsletter, I hope to share some of those thoughts and ideas on a bi-weekly basis.

Along side my brain waves, I will share:

• articles

• books

• podcasts

• tv shows

• infographics

• research

• anything that I feel has an impact on me professionally and personally.

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Why name it “Building Rome(s)”?

The saying goes, Rome wasn’t built in a day. That is true of any platform, product, and service. It starts with a spark, an idea that is molded over time into something extraordinary. I have been lucky in my career to have had opportunities to build many Romes at some of the biggest names in Tech. So, instead of naming it something boring like …

“Program Management in Tech”,

… or …

“All Things Technical Program Management”

… why not …

“Building Rome(s)”.

… sounds much cooler especially for a newsletter name.