Reinvent Film Certification Board

Narendra Modi Govt can really do well without unwanted distractions like the recent Censor Board Curse List controversy. These issues occupy media space for a long time, refuse to die down soon, and are unproductive for all the stakeholders. It is just lose-lose equation for everyone – Government, the Board and most importantly us, the citizens. They get etched in the memory of the people, derail the positive, development …

The Delhi Aftermath

Twitter and Facebook witnessed a troll fest on Feb 10th when the Delhi election results were announced. “Bhakts” had a tough time getting trolled by the “AAPtards”. The “Congis” were conspicuous by their absence in this space. Clichés like “Honesty Wins”, “New Chapter in Indian Politics”, “Common Man Won”  “Modi-Shah decimated” etc had a field day. The BJP supporters valiantly retaliated by saying “Kejriwal would …

The one extra degree

This is the first of a series of my posts on the key take ways from the recently concluded Project Management National Conference 2014 in Hyderabad, India. This is my interpretation of the concepts presented in the conference. Every time in the gym, when I am lifting weights and I find the last 3 or 4 of the 20 repetitions to be the most toughest …

The Trust Axis

When I bought a new car a couple of years back, I was very possessive about it. I did not like even a speck of dirt or a single scratch on it. The time for the first service came and the Service center promptly sent out a driver to pick up the car. Although it was me who requested for a pick up, I …

The PHONE Dilemma

The moment you grab the news paper in the morning, you are welcomed with full paged adverts of exciting offers on the latest and the greatest smartphone.  The deals are so enticing that you would just want to login to you favorite online store and order one immediately. I am no stranger to this situation. I already own a Samsung Galaxy Note from the …

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 …

The Storm from Yanni

An awe inspiring video. A textbook Team work lessons video. Big fan of this video and have used this video to inspire my team during various situations and give the motivation the required boost! A must watch.

Yanni and his music is something to follow.