Yes and I mean it. The Best experience I had was when working on the content website that Aaron called as Me-Media ;) Yes content of the people,by the people and for the people... did you just call it Democracy? Yeah I would call it Contocracy :D. So back to what I would like to do, today when discussing on the Business Modal for my upcoming venture one of my friend and potential partner said that...
Sunday, 16 December 2007
Saturday, 8 December 2007
Its Bad but I am gonna fight it... Yes another toxic Leadership!!!
Well My call today to get convinced to stay on what I am doing was not very fruitful. I am pretty upset over a few things told to me and it seems that I really got into the toxic company(partnership) where things were shown in a different way. Anyways though this post and platform is not to discuss on who I am upset about... I would really like to bring a few points about Toxic Leadership that can...
Friday, 30 November 2007
Not much Blogging as I am on MARS these days
Dont get surprised.... I still havent won the trip to NASA from Aamir Khan its just that I have moved to a new place called MARS. I am sure your eyebrows are stretched but if you havent met me or spoke to me since last week its OK I can answer you. After our company got acquired a few months ago I happened to move to a new workplace where the acquiring company works from and this place gives me a...
Thursday, 29 November 2007
When Team is about Head Counts , Quality is a Grave
I am damm very upset. If getting 10 heads can achieve deliveries Quality is going to be under a 6 ft grave PERIOD. Yes and why not Heads dont form Team's so if Team's are on paper I am sure deliverables are just outputs and not results. In an interview I gave a while back for a Unit Head for a reputed firm I was asked by a very Sr. Manager "How much do you care about Quality?", I answered "There are...
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Reactions - A Bitter truth
Off lately when I was been told that someone thinks that my capabilities in certain areas are not optimal and thus I cannot play a given role... there was a reaction bubble waiting in within there wanting to come out.... however I knew where the opinion emerged from and why it came in.... however there was no way to keep the reaction bubble within and I just had to get it out... what best source than...
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
When it Sux it really Sucks...
So I could not retaliate to the holidays and the tight couplings with the work.... Finally i will resume blogging on all of my blogs and arti posters from tomorrow.... Just want to go home and sleep now....
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
You will not be sacked ... But I dont know what we will do to you
So just a few days after I wrote the blog on the attitude a man usually carries when he is employeed and not having much tasks I actually got to experience the answer that came from a higher authority.... I am not so much convinced with the answer and I would like to say that No wonder people feel its time to get out ... Here are a few answers I have and I would answer if I am been asked the same...
Sunday, 28 October 2007
I will be sacked soon
Just trousing through Yahoo today I somewhere agreed with Jerry Yang's recent statements .... Give me 100 days and I shall have a answer to the competition world... The trousing led me to write this post that says HOW TO KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE SACKED SOON. Now when I read through this page I feel that forgetting what a insecure employee feels it is important for the employers to provide this confidence....
Sunday, 21 October 2007
Outsourcing sucks since there are not many co-located teams
Well Yes Yes..... I still work for a company that works on outsourced projects and that's why my post comes into action.. since when you do more you know more.... The misery of outsourcing always had been the domain knowledge and product understanding... and for the time been lets not use words like product vision or product UVP's... The more of technical teams I have dealt with, the more I realised...
Friday, 19 October 2007
Narayan Murthy says DO NOT WORK LONG Hours I disagree
When Natwar posted an article from the mentor of several thousand professionals all over the world Narayan Murthy... yes the Big Boss and the Chief Mentor of Infosys technologies...that talked about how long working hours are not productive and harms the individual and the organisational goals.... I was believed to Agree and Disagree..... though I do believe in a fact that longer hours in the office...
Thursday, 18 October 2007
How disguisting it is to work with Idiots?
With my keyboard not allowing me time to write about the book that has been waiting since long... I started my new chapter on "How to be efficient working with Idiots" with a pen and paper yet again... and hell Yes I am on my second page..... Let me write the extracts tonight and on the weekend when I finish the long waited lost continuity....
Monday, 1 October 2007
Do you know the GOD's and the DOG's of your Project?
OK Lets find them... Comment or reply to my Email... lets list the characteristics of the GOD's and the DOG's of your project.....Beware both can be dangerous if not handled correctly... and one complements the others...
Sunday, 30 September 2007
What is a Project for you?
reading through PMBOK (For those Managers who are new to PMI ;) it is the Project Management Body of Knowledge), This definition hit my mind :"A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, orresult." Well when the PMI defined this they definitely had more to say ... but while I would like to elaborate on this definition leaving aside the technical definitions of...
Saturday, 22 September 2007
Friday, 21 September 2007
In Search of Authenticity
So finally the quest for Authenticity begins....I had a call and an invitation to the Lead India Group discussion for their initiative effort to find a better leader from the mass. Ofcourse I am excited to be there and see how the process is going to take place and how the leader would be found simply becuase my definition of leadership in the past few days had been shattered completely. To me leadership...
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Am I Happy?
Somebody asked me today "Why do you whistle at work?" and I really had to question myself on why.... gathering the answers I realised that its the Happiness that makes me 1. Whistle around2. Roam around the office3. Kick ass myself to do more or less work4. Worry only when required5. Keep SmilingYes the answer is Happiness ... the same thing that we derive from each atom or molecule we use or utilise...
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Hush the Technology
The WebOS market is growing stronger inspite of the recent Office 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 announcement done recently... while the world still wants to move and think about the semantic worls... Ajax is driving the second gear with the complete Web OS solution....Have a look at www.ajaxwindows....
Wednesday, 5 September 2007
Thanks to ALL My Teachers
For Teaching me how to be:Honest, Loyal, Hardworking, Effective, Effecient and above all How to be a Good Human.Thanks to Shahnaz Miss - Jr and Sr. Kintergarden and 2nd Grade Teacher Thanks to Aruna Miss my 3rd grade Teacher who taught me that fight is not the solution to problems.Thanks to Nafisa Miss my 4th grade teacher who taught me not to be arrogant.Thanks to Ajitha Miss my 5th grade teacher...
Saturday, 1 September 2007
Rewards : Do they Motivate? - II
In my earlier post regarding Do rewards Motivate? and to my promise in the same post to tell you what would be an Ideal Reward like..... I felt the need to explain the differentiation between rewardful and rewardless motivations... To what I feel and I can easily describe why rewards were ever introduced is to create a passion in the people to do things better to have optimum or more than optimum...
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Replace the Issues or Fix it?
What do you do when you find issues with ?1. The Product you are working on?2. The tasks you are doing?3. Colleagues?4. Your Boss?5. Yourself?Do find the answers ... and I will share a quick resolution tip to problem solving....
Sunday, 19 August 2007
The Learning attitude
What a Waste it was!!!Damm if it was done like this we would have not wasted blah blah blahI wasted X years of my life in schooland what not.... I am sure you may have encountered these lines few or many times a day or week or month or whenever.... but something that can change these lines is the attitude within you that somehow we ignore... Yes I am talking about the learning attitude... Well you...
Friday, 17 August 2007
How to Find the right Guy?
Hmmm... How to judge the right resource? when Rama on his blog asked this question I really wanted to blog the same day... unfortunately it took more than 2 months for me to find back the notepad scribble I wrote and bring it back as this Post. The other reason to bring this in is also a comment that appeared from Kari on the earlier blogpost Are your best guys in Action . So how to find the right...
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Steve Jobs - A Miracle or Destiny child?
It just took the first few words for me to have my goose hair.. I am sure you would too be inspired by this... I somehow found this on You Tube and thanks to Chad to make us meet Steve Jobs so what if its virt...
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
The YIKIT How to
Referring to the earlier post on the YIKIT's and to a request from Faisal on how to compel the YIKIT attitude, here are a few ways to handle and manage the YIKIT attitude:1. Never embarass themThis should be the last thing you would want to do.. The YIKIT's attitude is just to show that they know more than anyone else, these type of people cannot hide their embarassement and would want to run away...
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Are your Best Guys in Action?
Lately reading the Technical Interview I took from Suresh and to my earlier post regarding the Diminishing Software Quality I am really really sad when I look at the way the software's are developed and manhandled afterwords... A simple question I ask to myself looking at the IT Industry boom in India is "Are the Best Guy's doing what they are Best at?" ... Surprised to listen? I myself feel NO.....
Sunday, 5 August 2007
The Magic Pill
Tom Fosters post about the Magic Pill really impressed me the idea of 40 hrs a week on force really can make a Manager's life more easy and productive... But while I feel that the Magic Pill comes as a sorcerer's stone the diamond stone of work is always been more preffered... the stone that can kill you only when you try to swallow it... 40 hrs a week is the ideal thing to do (not anymore when the...
Saturday, 4 August 2007
YUCK:- Me Know Everything????
While I was listing down some qualities of the Leader's and Managers I realised I forgot to talk about the Commodity Managers when Listing down the Commodity Leaders. One of the problems with the commodity leaders or both commodity leaders or Managers is that they pretend to know everything...I remember while playing Card Poker games with my friends "BLUFFING" was the only way to get out and win......
Thursday, 2 August 2007
The Have's and Want's
I was been asked by a friend to update my Have's and Wants on my Ryze Page Before I could really do it I realised its important to know about it before I update it. One of the Question or Theroam that hit me always was that people dont know what they want or rather dont know what they have.Last I asked someone on why he wants to do strategic business development the answer I got was "Its more Money"...
Saturday, 28 July 2007
Commodity Leadership
While I dont intend to discuss the Harry Potter and the Deathly hallows secrets by any chance on this blog I am forced to write about something that is a part and parcel of todays fast moving business world. One of the reason why Professor Dumbledore could not succeed to be a Master Of Death or rather be the most powerful Harry Potter character is that he was a Commodity Leader, This was revealed...
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Sharepoint Goes RSS
While I was really thinking how beneficial it would be to get RSS Feeds for the collaboration tools.. the 1 step ahead Sharepoint has already declared it with newsgator... Darn sounds like Sharepoint is moving towards the semantic world.. More to Read onhttp://www.newsgator.com/Enterprise20/SharePoint/SharePoint_3.a...
Tuesday, 24 July 2007
DOING A JOB or DoING it RIGHT
"When there's a gap between someone doing a job and doing the right thing, then management has failed"Now I don't remember which Article or Blog I read this and unfortunately not able to find the exact place even after doing so many searches, I am actually forced to link this to the Harry Potter book specially because of the incidences happening over there... BTW This post was written when I was in...
Friday, 6 July 2007
Move To Thrash
A Few weeks ago we developed this feature for one of our key Customers on a key Project... what a thing it would be I realised if I get this Button in the Project Management to:1. Thrash the Communication problems2. Thrash the delays in the deadlines3. Thrash the bugs in the system to never restore4. Thrash the hurdles in the way of a successful growing product5. Thrash the banners that do not motivate...
Serial Entrepreneurs?
Meeting with Mark Organ a few weeks ago in Pune was a kickoff to think the Serial way.. which honestly provoked me to think about the Buzz Kings and the internet Millionaires... So what is the reason I am writing this post here?Well Project Management or to that matter any sort of Management is all about making things better than SEX, and Yes Making Money definately is better than SEX.. Hope yall...
Wednesday, 4 July 2007
So whats the Problem?
With reference to my earlier post on Are we creating a Bug? and the strong opinion I carry about Negative Management (I am putting it sweet here so that you dont feel I am calling MIS-MANAGEMENT) In both the stories I find the biggest similarity... A WRONG APPROACH. So who decides the right approach? How to take a right approach? How to avoid creating a Bug? Or Natwar (Our Automation King) language...
Monday, 2 July 2007
Creating a Bug?
I always think that Management is all about investing keeping in mind the ROI. Eventually lot of the Managers today know investing but not sure if they understand how and where to generate the ROI from... Well the reason why my post hits the blog is a recent incident that happened... Around a month ago I met a mother of a kid from my son's nursery school and while talking to her I realised that she...
Positng Daily
Well my Wife's Astrologer told her that starting July first week theres going to be tremendous pressure on me and that I have to take some decissions before July to be safe and Happy.... I made up my mind to start doing things that can relive my pressure to the Least... So my first resolution is blogging daily... I am gonna start a series with situations that forms one of the objectives of my Blog...
Thomas Power in India
A Long tourney Master of the social networking is in India. Yes Thomas Power is in Mumbai, India on the 25th July 2007 for a workshop on Social Networking and More.. for those who don't know much about Thomas Power or who want to know the details of his visit can go on to:http://www.thomaspowerindia.com/RegardsSameer Shaikhhttp://pm-better-than-sex.blogspot.comhttp://sameer-shaikh.blogspot....
Saturday, 30 June 2007
Software Outsourcing and the Diminishing Quality
It had been almost 8 yrs now in the Industry and experience is counting... more and more....Yesterday for some reason we had a discussion on the diminishing quality of software with outsourcing.. specially when the world is slowly moving from India/China towards Ukraine and other nations and remembering my last week Meeting with Twain Harris CEO,ATC LLC on the software quality they got out of the...
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Of Objective , Goals and Value
This Project will change your career pathThis opportunity cannot be missed outThis will change your lifeThis will be remembered by You as a revolution in your life... Well Well well many more buzzwords and Jargon's. Honestly I feel that this is how the current Manager Trend has been selling its products and I am left no away from it.... though I am rarely frequent in making such promises or Hives...
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Revise yourself
lately I realised that it had been a few months since I have revised myself... As a Manager I feel it is atmost important to keep on revising to avoid lapses and backsteps. A few things I could capture why I need a revision are:1. Missing Objectives 2. Confused Deliverables3. Untimed schedules4. Rigid Views5. Non passioned approach6. vertical limitsWhat my next version would include will make sure...
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
About Me
I finally get to write something about me.. About me and here...For those who have hit the page as they are just curious to know about me... I somehow graduated, Accidentally ended up as a Project Manager, loved the profession, and enjoy the ups and downs of it. I love the puter but not more than the...
Saturday, 9 June 2007
Goals and Objectives of the Blog
Objectives of the blogWhen I started the blog, It was meant for sharing the day to day activities that affect right the professional part of me. I was never too organized to have a separate blog for person things and a separate one for activities that I like about and are work related. The core objective of this blog is to share with you the experience I earn every day, Share with you what I have...
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Want to be Productive? Sleep in the Office, Fill in the Toilets.....
OK so this is no funny thing... Have you seen people dozing off in the meetings?Have you seen people sinking in their desks at work?Have you seen people daydreaming? If you see people doing these ... make a point that they can be more productive then the ones who are UP, STRAIGHT and AWAKE all day.....lately I heard from my Behavioural mentor that a small nap in the office helps him freshen up his...
