Archive for the ‘Developer’ Category

Moving up in career and Milk the Cow syndrome

Monday, December 19th, 2011

How we have felt violated when we realized that our peer in team have got promotion or new designation with new set of responsibilities and authority? This comes as a shock and wakeup call and more so when we had considered ourselves in line for similar role change or promotion ...

Being good listener and Rookie in Indian cricket team

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Cricket being team game has lots of similarities to teams in professional environment and many situations can be lifted as it is from cricket field and directly applied in teams in offices. Today morning news gave details about how Umesh Yadav (fast bowler) was not able to bowl right length ...

Impact of playing blame game

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

How simple it is to pin a failure or misdeed on another person or situation or company. This is case with almost all of us. This is easier way out. If nothing works out blame it on God and bad luck. In context of professionals working in corporate environment, this ...

Objective decision making – are we really able to do it?

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

How much of the decision making affected by our opinion and/or feelings towards the people involved? I am sure lots of decisions are taken based on our personal view and what we assume about the situation. Decision making is mostly driven by an instinct, which invariable guides our mind to ...

Managing high performing team member and allegations of Favoritism

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Handling high performing team member (in the project) becomes bit of dilemma for project leader / manager and requires special and specific efforts on part of manager to ensure that high performing team member is actively engaged and productive. In doing so – manager does a tight rope walk – ...

How to get a super start to career – the Ashwin story

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

Just ended test series between India and West Indies was one sided however the last day of last Test was fitting response that Test Match cricket is alive and kicking. Cricket being team game and lots of management derivatives have been pulled out and documented. Managers do draw parallel and ...

M.Tech – a viable option for geeks amongst us

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Not everyone join an engineering course after 12th under peer pressure or to complete parents’ dreams. Few join the engineering who have dreamed of making this field their own, having shown deep interest in chosen technical track during schooling days. They have instinctive interest and love for the technology, physics ...

MBA as viable option for Fresh Graduates *Conditions Apply

Friday, November 18th, 2011

One of the very viable options available is pursuing MBA for people who are not able to get a job after graduating out of engineering college. There are lots of positives in this approach and have potential to do tremendous value add to the resume and impart business insight helping ...

Professional courses for fresh graduates – reality check

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

The option available for people just out of college and haven’t been able to land a job in next 3-4 months are limited and one of them is joining professional courses. Professional / technical courses available are Java, .Net, Oracle DBA, SAP, Seibel, etc. The marketing and sales team for ...

Being Fresher in times of recession – challenges and redemption

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Does current sluggish movement of SENSEX be related with career options available for fresher candidates looking out for job? YES. Almost all industrial sectors are going through downturn and IT is severely impacted as well. Campus placement this year is very less compared to previous years when Top 5 had ...