Zig Zigler

Today I learnt a very important lesson. Its actually Sales guru, Zig Zigler’s wisdom. His concept says when you encounter a bad treatment while trying to make a sale, instead of treating it as an experience, treat it as an experiment. We can extend this to any other, not just sales. Experiences tend to leave a scar, which will influence our upcoming endeavors, but …

The Power of being “LIVE”

After every project, every big milestone, we learn a lot of best practices that can change the way we work. One of the biggest challenge in adopting these best practices is consistency. Although, these are “best practices”, they often end up being discontinues after a certain time. The percentage of what we we learn to what we retain/implement is very less. For example, we all …

Vertical feature teams in agile

Very enthusiastically, we embraced the vertical feature team concept. It made real sense to have the developers and testers to be in the same team. After two iterations, we observed some pros ane cons of it. We witnessed an unprecedented co-operation and synergy between the two functions. Requirement clarifications, use case realisation, storyboard development etc were among those areas which really improved However, the …