Booting up new members... a question that has been hitting for a while now...Since August 2010, we in Pune have doubled up the size of our development Team.. while it is a good thing for any team and is a sign of upcoming prosperity to the Team and Organization... There is certainly a bigger issue to handle . To ensure that the new Team carries old values, improvises what we have and ensure that the...
Monday, 28 March 2011
Saturday, 19 March 2011
The inspiring friday tale - How to be happy at work
The Friday that passed away last was highly inspiring, believe me not all Fridays are very good part of my days for a few reasons like I like to be in Office and work, I feel pressure to complete all those incomplete things I have left over the week to be completed on the weekend, I find Friday nights lazy and Saturday and Sunday mornings dead as kids have no school on the weekends and everyone at...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Say NO TO AGILE
I had a 15 minute debate today with a very good friend. While I started this blog, I had just finished the conversation and while I finish this blog I have decided to give him a call and tell him DONT THINK OF AGILE..To give a bit of a background to this... I received this call just 30 minutes ago where a friend banged greetings and then asked "Is this Agile any good?".. A few questions and I was...
Passion
Post the last scrum a day before,I asked this question to YT and Vaibhav "Are our scrums valuable?" One reason asking that question was for the last few days/ months we are discussing "What we do" and nothing more... Over a last few months we have never discussed things that would make life of our users effective... In other words "We are not fighting for our users". The discussion led to several...
Saturday, 12 March 2011
The Myths of 2G Spectrum and the Reality - My View
Referring to my previous post and an email I saw from a colleague.. forced me to write this post up... The entire post is made up of those thoughts on how I analysed the whole 2G spectrum thing and one reason I write this post in this blog is also due to the fact that as Leadership and as Authentic leaders many of the leaders have to sit in chairs of victims just because the myths become allegations...
2G , 3G and Me
This week on Monday I saw a text message on my cell.. said "3G now available in your city on Vodafone", knowing from my team mates on how beneficial 3G was and knowing that Vodafone is giving me a free trial until 10th April, I decided to go with it...I got it enabled as you can see from my tweet......
Friday, 11 March 2011
Pray for Japan
Dear God,Please help our friends in Japan and neighboring islands who are now facing very very difficult situations with the earth quake that just hit them badly and tsunami that followed. We from here in India can only pray and would need you to assist our friends there.Rega...
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Do you need Policing?
Today over a one on one session with Ani (One of our lead engineers), we(Me and him) ended up brainstorming an idea of code policing... In other words having policing efforts from someone on our code repository.... Of course the reason for such a thought and idea is to improvise the quality of the code that goes into our system... with all due respect to our hard working engineers, the quality of...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
The Power of WHY
Ever asked a question to yourself "Why I did this?" ever been into a situation that made you think Why you did something? Well the problem is we dont ask this question "Why?" atleast not very often to one self or others.. Last week we had 2 of our potential Trainees give a presentation of their understanding...
Monday, 7 March 2011
The King's Speech - Know your shortcomings and fearlessly work on it
What do you do when you cannot communicate something that you want to? What do you do when the issue is not just about your ability? What do you do when the inner self stops you from doing things that can help you achieve great things? What do you do when you loose a war to your fears when you are fighting battles of life? And what if all of this is happening to you when you drive lives of others?...
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Life of a Product - Where is the Quality
From the books of a Product...I asked my developer to give me quality,He wrote me a piece of code that raised my anxiety,when I said this is not working as desired,He said its just how the requirement was defined.. badlyI asked my QA to give me qualityHe gave me a document that describes the resource scarcityI asked on whether things work as desired,He said it is in state of humilityI asked my Project...
