Meeting Title: Sync w- sheshu on resourcing Date: 2026-01-20 Meeting participants: Pranav Narahari, Sheshu Chandrasekar
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1 00:02:17.250 ⇒ 00:02:18.529 Pranav Narahari: Yo, yo.
2 00:02:19.020 ⇒ 00:02:20.599 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Hey, sorry about that.
3 00:02:20.810 ⇒ 00:02:26.260 Pranav Narahari: You’re good, you’re good. Yeah, I know you don’t have that much time, so I can just be quick. Yeah.
4 00:02:27.500 ⇒ 00:02:38.579 Pranav Narahari: Yeah, so… I would say… At a minimum, what would be great for me is just to… Every Monday?
5 00:02:38.710 ⇒ 00:02:44.619 Pranav Narahari: Get an update on how many hours we have left on a project.
6 00:02:45.800 ⇒ 00:02:53.080 Pranav Narahari: For a month. And I’m assuming month, because I assume that’s what the…
7 00:02:54.210 ⇒ 00:03:02.619 Pranav Narahari: that’s kind of how the contracts are set up, like, you know, on a monthly basis, we have this many hours that we’re willing to pay for.
8 00:03:03.370 ⇒ 00:03:05.829 Pranav Narahari: I think that would be…
9 00:03:06.600 ⇒ 00:03:19.809 Pranav Narahari: the most useful for me. I know people also, like, clock… put stuff in Clockify every day, so on… honestly, if I just get, like, a 6am notification, like, every single day, like, okay, this is how many hours we have left for the… left for this week,
10 00:03:20.770 ⇒ 00:03:36.349 Pranav Narahari: in the future, we can even be like, oh, but Casey, or whoever else is on your team, like Casey, Sam, haven’t updated Clockify, please ask them to update Clockify to get a better picture of how many hours and what budget is left for the project.
11 00:03:36.690 ⇒ 00:03:40.050 Pranav Narahari: I think that would be great to keep us on track as well.
12 00:03:40.240 ⇒ 00:03:43.499 Pranav Narahari: Yeah, does that make sense? It’s pretty similar.
13 00:03:43.500 ⇒ 00:03:48.899 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah, that makes sense. It’s simple, yeah, because I remember even when I was working at Deloitte, we were able to kind of, like.
14 00:03:49.370 ⇒ 00:03:50.860 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Steve, like, there’s, like.
15 00:03:51.180 ⇒ 00:04:09.880 Sheshu Chandrasekar: there’s this thing called Staff It, in essence, and it’s like, you confirm, like, okay, for 8 hours they’ll be working on X project, or for 6 hours they’ll be working on this initiative. So, it gave, like, forecasting details for, like, internals, right? So, I think that’s what you’re kind of envisioning for you to see, like, hey, okay, this guy has, like.
16 00:04:10.100 ⇒ 00:04:24.320 Sheshu Chandrasekar: 4 hours for Lilo and 4 hours for something else, so it gives you a better idea. Yeah. Okay, yeah, we can definitely mock something up. So you don’t… what do you not like about oper… does operations not do that for you right now, or operator not do that for you?
17 00:04:24.510 ⇒ 00:04:26.960 Pranav Narahari: Operating doesn’t show me that data right now.
18 00:04:26.960 ⇒ 00:04:27.780 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Okay. So…
19 00:04:27.780 ⇒ 00:04:35.779 Pranav Narahari: Lorico was showing me, like, a couple… I think maybe operating’s just not up to date. That could be the case.
20 00:04:36.390 ⇒ 00:04:55.070 Pranav Narahari: But yeah, operating doesn’t show me that info right now. It doesn’t show me people’s PTO, and so I think that’s another big thing, like, yesterday Sam was on PTO, or he was taking part of the day out of office, and so, like, I don’t want to even, like, try to set up a meeting with him during that day, like, but I tried to set up two meetings with him yesterday.
21 00:04:55.200 ⇒ 00:04:57.319 Pranav Narahari: And so…
22 00:04:58.150 ⇒ 00:05:10.830 Pranav Narahari: Yeah, maybe operating… like, cause that, you know, the out-of-office thing, okay, that’s… that’s a nice-to-have. If operating just isn’t up to date, then, okay, that’s fine, like, I’m sure y’all will get there.
23 00:05:11.470 ⇒ 00:05:19.590 Pranav Narahari: But if this is something that we’re not even capturing, and it’s not visible for, like, EPs, I think it should definitely be visible, because I think it would help out a lot.
24 00:05:19.990 ⇒ 00:05:21.609 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense.
25 00:05:21.840 ⇒ 00:05:22.420 Pranav Narahari: Yeah.
26 00:05:22.670 ⇒ 00:05:27.109 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah, that could be annoying for your EP, because you do have to forecast a little.
27 00:05:27.330 ⇒ 00:05:28.970 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Little forward, so…
28 00:05:29.060 ⇒ 00:05:30.900 Pranav Narahari: Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, so…
29 00:05:30.900 ⇒ 00:05:41.180 Sheshu Chandrasekar: I’ll check in with regard to see if that’s a possibility, because it sounds like it’s more of a behavioral problem on our part for not enforcing it than it is a tech problem.
30 00:05:42.600 ⇒ 00:05:44.799 Pranav Narahari: Yeah, what do you mean, like, behavioral?
31 00:05:45.210 ⇒ 00:05:52.330 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Well, I mean, like, if people don’t update, they’re out of office, like, a couple days prior, right? Like, a week in advance.
32 00:05:52.700 ⇒ 00:05:55.890 Sheshu Chandrasekar: then that’s, like, an issue, right? So, that’s, like, a…
33 00:05:55.890 ⇒ 00:05:58.810 Pranav Narahari: Oh, interesting. Yeah, well…
34 00:05:59.450 ⇒ 00:06:06.349 Pranav Narahari: Yeah, I guess, should I be… like, so I think maybe Sam did. Like, he probably did, to be honest.
35 00:06:07.270 ⇒ 00:06:10.539 Pranav Narahari: am I supposed to then go into…
36 00:06:10.790 ⇒ 00:06:15.950 Pranav Narahari: like, Google and, like, check every day to see, like, when… or every week to see, like.
37 00:06:15.950 ⇒ 00:06:17.319 Sheshu Chandrasekar: No, I mean
38 00:06:17.490 ⇒ 00:06:33.299 Sheshu Chandrasekar: The way I would do it if I was going on PTO is, like, I would create a calendar event, mark it as free, and then say, hey, I’m going on PTO, and then send it to people that, are on my team, right? Just so they have awareness on my calendar.
39 00:06:34.290 ⇒ 00:06:35.499 Pranav Narahari: But, you know.
40 00:06:35.740 ⇒ 00:06:38.939 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Anyway, yeah, but I guess, like, from a…
41 00:06:39.110 ⇒ 00:06:44.929 Sheshu Chandrasekar: forecasting standpoint, internally speaking, I think it’s very important for us to have that level of,
42 00:06:45.290 ⇒ 00:06:55.379 Sheshu Chandrasekar: like, data ahead. So even if it’s on your calendar, like, it’s very important for us to have that, just so we can manage resources and give you the support that you need at some point.
43 00:06:55.860 ⇒ 00:07:08.640 Pranav Narahari: Yeah. In a one-day or even half-day thing, like, that doesn’t matter at all. Like, for the most part, like, usually people, what they’ll do is, like, if they take, like, 4 hours off, like, one day, they’ll just make up for it during the rest of the week. So, in terms of, like.
44 00:07:08.960 ⇒ 00:07:25.339 Pranav Narahari: setting up for the week, like, how much bandwidth they have, it’s usually around the same. But, you know, I’ll be going to India in, like, April, right? So that’s gonna be, like, for a week. I’m not gonna be working for a week. Like, that needs to be tracked, and that needs to be reflected in, like.
45 00:07:25.870 ⇒ 00:07:31.029 Pranav Narahari: the… the roadmaps, the Gantt charts, and we can only do that if, like.
46 00:07:31.290 ⇒ 00:07:34.880 Pranav Narahari: I can get that information from other people.
47 00:07:35.070 ⇒ 00:07:36.000 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah.
48 00:07:36.780 ⇒ 00:07:40.430 Pranav Narahari: Can we talk more about, like, what this looks like. I know you need to jump, but .
49 00:07:40.430 ⇒ 00:07:41.290 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah.
50 00:07:41.290 ⇒ 00:07:41.700 Pranav Narahari: Yes.
51 00:07:41.700 ⇒ 00:07:52.430 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Let me find some time later today, and then we can… I do want to talk to… so Sam is out, but I would like to talk to your other, team member, kind of, so I can get a better perspective on, like.
52 00:07:52.510 ⇒ 00:08:09.010 Sheshu Chandrasekar: because, like, to be honest, let me tell you what’s going on. So, we’re building the homepage, out, but we’re… I’m also kind of going deeper into the SL, the EPs, and the CSO, like, building out, like, templates and, like, some sort of guiding principles and best practices in that notion. So, like.
53 00:08:09.170 ⇒ 00:08:12.450 Sheshu Chandrasekar: That should become, like, your new home in a way, right?
54 00:08:12.450 ⇒ 00:08:13.060 Pranav Narahari: Okay.
55 00:08:13.060 ⇒ 00:08:14.929 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Eastern things, yeah.
56 00:08:15.640 ⇒ 00:08:26.130 Sheshu Chandrasekar: That’s what I’m envisioning. It may change much later, but the more conversations I have like these, the better I can formulate a plan of attack, so… Cool. Yeah.
57 00:08:26.130 ⇒ 00:08:30.399 Pranav Narahari: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I’ll tell you what’s, like, working well for me as an EP, what’s not.
58 00:08:30.400 ⇒ 00:08:31.010 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Yeah.
59 00:08:31.160 ⇒ 00:08:36.379 Sheshu Chandrasekar: No, absolutely. Hey, I do have to jump, but I will schedule another time at some point today.
60 00:08:36.659 ⇒ 00:08:38.349 Pranav Narahari: Perfect, perfect. Yeah, sounds good.
61 00:08:38.350 ⇒ 00:08:40.269 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Alright, thanks for… thanks for chatting.
62 00:08:40.450 ⇒ 00:08:41.479 Pranav Narahari: Yes, sir. See ya.
63 00:08:41.690 ⇒ 00:08:42.260 Sheshu Chandrasekar: Bye.