They really change the TRP ratings when they run on the prime time, people make several thousand hits over web to know whats going on in this reality show. Everyone is crazy to know what is going on in the house. I reach home from office and watch the repeat telecast of the show.. and I know a lot many others too.... So what is in the house that I like about ? We like about? For may of us I believe...
Monday, 30 November 2009
Are you burnt out?
We ask this question... a few hours, days moment before we make a request to our Boss for a week long vacation or just when you think that its being a full quarter and you haven't taken your holidays .... I have read and seen a lot of guys saying , talking , writing this... We are burnt out and need...
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The Enterocial need!!! Can we get Enterprises Ready?
So much of hype of Social Media, so much to speak about it.. but with the world turning its heads on Social Media, Social search , Social culture... are the enterprises ready to adapt any of the good that Social Media brings in? Well I am not sure how much of it will be debated or how much will be agreed... but the challenges in running big enterprises lets you think on the best ways to improve enterprises...
Monday, 23 November 2009
What did you miss?
I got a call from a friend 15 minutes before I had to decide on writing this post... The conversation very short and simple, effect very long and lasting... To give a bit of a background my friend is leading a team of 50 Engineers, analysts, QA and Business Managers, A year ago while we were busy building our Team, he too had started to set a direction to his...We had almost 8-9 chats on cultures...
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Build fast, Break fast
There is nothing in this world called quick solution. If something is going to be built quick , it is going to break quick. Our experience in building good quality softwares is a good example for this... I remember first time our interaction with our then Product Manager Karin.... we discussed on a feature where the estimate given by a developer to add a new feature was given to be a couple of weeks......
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Lessons from the Recent Deadlock issues
I usually don't do this over this blog... on my private blog diary however I maintain my own lessons but thought it has become very critical and worth a share. The recent deadlock issues really really tested my patience... it started on 30th October and finally seems to have ended today. But before I loose track of what and how we did, what we should take care.. here are my lessons from the issue...
Friday, 13 November 2009
Technology , Outages , Bugs and Us
No matter what you do... there is nothing called as full automation...One manual error and you are gone for life.... Over the last few weekssome good effort from the Team we have successfully being able to getrid of the eclipse to our code... Yes we got rid of conflicting ORMtechnologies in our code, upgraded and migrated our self to the bestone that works...However its not easy... technology is predictive...
Monday, 9 November 2009
Few ways to identify a Commited collegue
You have never see him out of officeThe places he is most found is the work desk , meeting room , coffee macineWhen he speaks about the project, he is at top of his voiceHe is on every forum and community related to the domain you work onWhen he is done he would sit at other desk and watch what they do, help themThe first and last email you get at work is from himHe is there in sun , rains and winterYou...
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Path to Organizational Success - Be Demanding?
Everyone of us is demanding, very demanding... we want good salaries, we want regular promotions, we want everything that someone can offer and someone cant... We crib for what cannot be offered more than what we get already... in other words we are too demanding.. I am sure when the Managers discuss...
Project Success and Team Values
Values always drive success, Success in any form. A Team without values is not possible, or in sweeter words no Values no Organizational success... so where do these values come from, where do they go and how they affect the success of any project?Too many questions... too little time to answer... but let me answer these questions for you today with some more questions... if you still dont get an...
Friday, 6 November 2009
Of Teams and Mediocrity II
Tanveer said : Well, Everywhere this is the same thing going on...it is because of impotent recruitment process.A Interviewer don't want to hire a person better than him, a manager give preference to a candidate from his community, People who refer candidates set out as well as break out the interviewing...
