-
Motivators...
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Nation building – The role of universities
Nation Building – The Role of Universities – By the President Of India I am indeed delighted to meet the Vice-Chancellors of the Universities in Punjab. My greetings to all the Vice Chancellors for their contribution in shaping the young … Continue reading
Posted in management
3 Comments
Some interesting quotes by Andy Grove
“When TV first came, people tried to look at it as a radio with pictures. We’re at the stage now where the Internet is TV with poor connections.” (August 2001) “A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be … Continue reading
Posted in management
Leave a comment
Software testing – Principles and practices
I must congratulate Mr.Srinivasan Desikan and Mr.Gopalswamy Ramesh for coming out with this exeplary book on software testing. Since I know Srini well at Novell, I very much know what I can expect from him, when it comes to testing. … Continue reading
Posted in book reviews, testing
18 Comments
Manging high profile teams
Dealing with high profile knowledge workers need not be as difficult as one feel.. All it needs is an ability to look at the changed team composition and be happy about it, than getting nervous about it. Handling such high … Continue reading
Posted in management, motivation, project management
Leave a comment
Congratulations Senthil PMP !
Dear Friends, Thank you very much for your kind wishes and greetings. I am grateful to you all for the motivation and care shown towards me when I mentioned about my exam this week. It is indeed really exciting and … Continue reading
Ignited minds
Today we had the infocruise 2006 meet at the college. The theme of the meet was biometrics and nanotechnology. Around 250 budding software engineers from various colleges attended. I was really amazed at the presentations given by the budding engineers … Continue reading
An experience sharing by Pete Deemer and his team
I wanted to share an interesting experience I had today. I was doing a retrospective with a team that’s about 2 months / 3 sprints into scrum. Coming into the retrospective the team seemed to be feeling pretty low – … Continue reading
Posted in motivation, project management, scrum
Leave a comment
Holacracy
The content below is from a posting in the yahoo group scrumdevelopment Holacracy is a way to organize an entire organization for self-organization, into which Agile teams seem to fit more comfortably. I heard about it at the conference, it … Continue reading
Posted in scrum
Leave a comment
The pigs and chickens
A chicken and a pig were walking down the road. The chicken says to the pig, “Do you want to open a restaurant with me?”. The pig considers the question and replies “‘Yes’. What do you want to call the … Continue reading
Posted in project management
Leave a comment
Adaptive Vs Predictive schools of project management
As of today, there are two schools of thought to project management. They fall into predictive project management and adaptive project management. Predictive Project Management Within predictive project management, we have the PMI (project management institute’s) view of project management, … Continue reading
Posted in project management
1 Comment
the current system sucks !
While adding some pages to this site, this was the question looming large at me. Why am I creating this blog, when so many good books on software engineering and software project management are available? To be honest, I started this … Continue reading
Posted in general
Leave a comment
Motivation behind the Art of software sculpting
The term ‘software engineering’ repells many of the creative minds from software development domain. ‘engineering’ just frightens them. At it’s present form, the current (Agile) software development methodologies are more like sculpting than engineering. They advocate software development in iterations, … Continue reading
Posted in motivation
Leave a comment
