My last post for the year. While I will retrospect this year on the Objectives page.. I want to mention that this year has been one hell of a year. One of the farce thing that came and strike me every time this year was the myths that surround Agile...I drafted a few of the Agile myths or maybe we can say excuses used under the name of Agile... lets see what Agile is not..1. A requirement document...
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Will products ever outdate Online Help and be Innovative?
Huh? From Management to Online help, never an easy journey... I speak because I am completely pissed off setting up my machine with a developer environment and do some pair development with my kids.. (Thanks to @rishanimates for setting up a version of eclipse on my machine that works) . So I use one of the most popular mobile development platform, dump the SDK so i can get a fresher work on some...
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
What is blocking your Innovation Path?
I was questioned by a colleague yesterday, a question I determine to answer through this blog post. The question was "do you remember of any Innovations we did in the last 2 years?". My answer is NOT REALLY. And I have no hesitation in saying this. I think while the whole world is claiming on Developers...
Monday, 29 November 2010
Is your code demanding Euthanasia?
Been a while on the blog... I am spending some of my time reviewing the styles and mistakes developers do while coding. The blog post was awaited, but the only reason I write it over today is the movie I saw 2 weeks ago. The topic revolved around Euthanasia - Mercy Killing . No I don't advocate it nor I have any reason to promote it. The only reason I write the blog post is the reason defined above......
Monday, 15 November 2010
Hire - Only if you find the fire
Hiring is always a challenge, You never are sure if you have found the right guy or not. This quest of convincing yourself that you did not make a mistake in hiring someone, never ends. never ever ends. Its not just about the technical skills or the ability to deliver in a person that determine whether you have found your right guy... its the attitude...A few weeks ago we have been doing rounds of...
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Teach you Customer Services rep to help your product succeed
Triiiiiiiiiing Triiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing... "Hello, Good Evening. I am XXXX speaking from YYY, How may I help you?- From the other end"I am Sameer, and I am calling to enquire about the letter I received from your company about the added bonus for my holiday package, that I have to confirm... blah blah...
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Where is your Chief Happiness Officer?
I started my day today answering a phone call from an old time friend, who was pretty unhappy about his current job and was re-locating in search of a great new job to another city. I was forced to think about the general unhappiness that gets created in the day to day cycle at any organization... some people unhappy about work, some about roles, some about compensations, some about environments,...
Monday, 8 November 2010
Build to the end and decide when to Release....
Attended the iDilute meeting last weekend, a meeting with some 6-7 odd highly energetic and intellignet brainstormers... One of the topic of discussion was around the success of various startups and products in todays competitive markets. While brainstorming products , methodologies , product management and development teams.. we discussed the best approaches that work for each of them. One of them...
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Romancing Confusion!!!
To enlighten your souls, I had to confuse you by putting such title... Indeed you are confused now on why you landed up on this blog, and are reading it... when all you were expecting is either a porn star giving a blow job video or some Management Guru giving some Gyaan (Knowledge) on Project Management...BTW...
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Clear Ownership
So much depends on this one element called Ownership. When one takes up the ownership he defines himself to a spectrum and to ensure that the ownership results in an output that fulfils and extends the organizational goals. When the same ownership is enforced, it results in a potential and disastrous failure. When you are working with the products, there has to thus clear definitions of Ownership....
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
The 25th hour
Do you ever feel that you have 1 hour less in the day? and that if you have had 1 hour more you could have done much much better?Do you think that the 25th hour is what keeps you away from doing and getting things done?Do you think that if you get extra hours you would get would help you complete all...
Monday, 6 September 2010
Why Yammer works!!!
A few months ago we ignited a YAM into our system, a system where collaboration was key.. we had our development Team split between Pune, Chennai , Brentford, Wales, SFO and our product teams split in Germany, France and US. You can imagine that with such a distributed development Team it is not easy to manage effective communication and collaboration. Forget about effective at certain times even...
India Enterprise
Vivek Wadhwa's article on Techcrunch shows the growing entrepreneurship in India and I just cant agree more... India Inc is growing, and this is not just in the field of Information Technology and Entrepreneurship but various other streams... A change is midway and this change is really very very significant and of course overwhelming... This also reminded me of Sunil Khaire a dear friend and...
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Focus on your competition to FAIL!!!!
A lot of people think that keeping your competition in view is necessary for your business to succeed, a majority of this lot thinks that focusing on them means focusing on yourself.. in turn your too much focus on competition leads to SHIT your own quality... Today I tweeted about something and could not stop myself from focusing on writing this blog away... I put my tweet belowWhen your focus is...
Friday, 3 September 2010
A Healthy environment!!!
The success of your teams depend on how healthy environment you create for them to work. A healthy environment is where they speak there mind without hesitation, where they move around without fear, where they challenge , where they question, where they ask, where they demand.A healthy environment empowers freedom , Innovation , fun and laughter.. above all it develops a respect within.. The Team...
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Marry your blog first!!!
Kari and me discussed a day ago on how to manage time to maintain the blog. I realize that yes it indeed is.. very very difficult to manage time to keep the spirit and the blog updated. But in the end it is your commitment towards your blog that defines and shows how much you value it and how much time...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Appraisal and Performance Criteria
I must have got at least a few stares and a few comments from friends that the post around How to handle Bad Appraisal was a employer perspective and very little thought was given for how one feels like when the appraisal goes wrong.I felt it was not a employer perspective, instead it was a perspective...
Monday, 30 August 2010
I really dont want to be a Millionaire PERIOD
Surprised? Well don't be... When I say it, I mean it.. I am sure you would agree if you have to face what Me and a few of my friends and colleagues had to ...I begin my Monday morning with the usual blues and greens and reds.. between checking mails and handling those alerting troubles, I get my phone...
Nobody wants to be the Pizzaboy
Funny isnt it? You would ask Why would one want to be in first place? and anyway's what is a Pizza boy doing on this blog? So to drill it down.. Yesterday it rained heavily in Pune, started through the day and those heavy lashes of rains almost cleaned the city every few minutes... While the roads appeared...
Saturday, 28 August 2010
How to take your Idea to the next level?
Since we are doing so much talks around Innovation, Innovation Killers... thought it may make sense to put this one on as well... How to take your Idea to its right destination... Well this blog post is not the bible and may not be really fit it to your Idea or Innovation... but it will definitely give...
Thursday, 26 August 2010
You dont have license to Innovate
So while in the past few days we are talking about Innovation and ways to build culture's to Innovate.. we left out one important point "Blocking Innovation". While those passionate souls bring Ideas and are keen to Innovate, there are bunch of evil souls that stop them from doing it... this block doesn't...
