During one of my projects, I was introduced to a control freak – my definition a person who claims to be GOD. This post is for people working on projects that have to work along side control freaks or who self proclaim themselves as GOD. As a person I like things to be black or [...]
If you are placed in an open plan office often times I have seen people try and keep their internet browsing activities minimal or try and shape their browser window so that their colleagues do not see them browsing. Does this sound familiar? You get the whole banning various websites by companies and then of [...]
God this topic that has been buzzing around me for about a year now. Last night I had a dream of owning a company such as Google. Wow I wish that was reality. Anyways in this dream I saw one of my Product Managers pull up one of my so called contracting staff in this [...]
It’s strange but true that people on a job like to be appreciated and loved. They all want a sense of belonging. Recently while working on a project I noticed for some god damn reason people from my team working on other projects would come up to me and confide in all work related issues. [...]
How do you go about estimating your time on a project for gathering requirements for a specific project? This gets a bit tricky. How much detail of the project is already know, how complex is the project, what is the technology used, what current system would have impacts on this project, how much time and [...]
The only way to do that is to cut the Mammoth into small slices. Slices should be like the regular cheese slices that we use on our sandwiches, these slices should be small enough because the sole purpose of cutting this Mammoth is to make it possible for humans (business users) to eat it. Besides [...]
A few months back when I was working on a project a thought cross my mind about, would a company require an Agile Business Analyst / Project Manager or a Person who had a combination skill of Both? A few years back, I would have said “No, you don’t”. Today for the web the whole [...]
Most problems with productivity today is because there are a few key issues (at least in my experience). These are: If your organization portrays to be flexible, but the people complain day in and out about Change Request, how cumbersome the applications they work on are then don’t put in an inflexible IT system and/or [...]
A year back I was involved in visiting a few vendors for web application development in New Zealand and India. It was weird when vendors spoke about their development methodology and why one is better than the other. I asked myself and a few of my guru friends the same question whether it mattered if [...]
Lyssa Adkins has been coaching Agile teams and enjoys delivering software and process projects using Agile methods. In this video she tries to provide an overview of how Project Manager can make a team more productive. This is a Recording of a workshop given at the Scrum Gathering. Enjoy!!!
When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]
In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]
Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]
I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]
Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]
