I came across this blog recently and found the statement "Middle Management block the use of blogs, wikis, syndications..." The first statement that read my mind was HOW TRUE.. and why not, I have seen it until very recent. We recently in our project teams wanted to drive a revolution of using: 1. Wiki for Project documentation2. XPlanner for Project Management3. JIRA for Bug Tracking and time scehdulingEventually...
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Monday, 16 June 2008
A Bad Presentation
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
Yesterday I was supposed to take up the Agile workshop for the part of the team that is really been damaged due to NO process and Process myths in the organisation. The "supposed to" was really for the last 7 months when each time I had to request for this and all I got is an answer saying "At the moment we dont really have time for this", eventually I was lucky enough this time to get through the...
Monday, 9 June 2008
Whats your highest priority?
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
I hear this very often.... 1. I always wanted to do this, but never got time2. This is what I wanted to do but never got enough support on it3. We wanted to document it but never got chance4. This is on a roadmap 5. We intend to do this but not nowWhile I review there maybe thousand valid reasons for all the so called excuses we give for not implementing things... I see one clear reason for the excuses...
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Successful Leadership is not only when you win!!!
Posted by Sameer Shaikh
Yesterday Indian cricket saw a Gala of cricket with the end of the DLF IPL T20, A spectacular performance from the Bollywood stars, followed by a nail biting T20 cricket match between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings which went to the last over of the game and decide Rajasthan Royals lead by Shane Warne to be the winner of the first ever game. For India and part of the world that is keeping...
