Looking back at the past month may be bit more 1.5 months.
Me and my project were chasing a delivery which was planned for 23Jan. which later in the last week was moved to 30Jan.
All members of dev&QA teams have been working hard. We have developed a good relation over the period of past few months. New friends/colleagues new work place, new role, new responsibilities, new things to learn - lot of new exposures in terms of professional life and also in terms of personnel relations.
Working in lead capacity in the work(office) environment has been a good experience. I definately noticed following things abt me carefully :
1. Being/feeling responsible. Creating the same attitude in mates.
2. Judging actions/people - I was able to identify many good things in my mates. Energy they carried, response they shared and so on.
3. Process wise - good planning and execution abilities.
I think i have taken lot of such exposures at JP, but when you have a different culture - manier times ur role/designation gives you the platform and how u cash it/control it/get hold of it will depend on you.. (as always)
Most singnificant thing in this tenure has been relationships that i developed with new ppl. I have not been able to have such a relation with my existing team-mates as well. !
Now after the project is complete - I am back to my original office location and lot of changes are taking place in the office -new management, new team formations and so on..
one thing for sure is I will remember this exp for long time for - Miss managed project, meaning of Frozen requirements, dilema between product-service org, new exposures that i had, ppl I met, and all the moments i lived in Marisoft. !
Friday, 23 January 2009
Monday, 5 January 2009
Being Professional - What does it mean
Lot of things have happened after I had written last .. I wanted to write abt few but well couldnot write.. !
At the office currently we are chasing a very strict deadline. And I am experiencing many new things as the date is coming close. Meaning of being Professional - is one such thing, that I am able to understand. I feel the essence of this is understanding your Role and sticking to the same. Understanding your Role is very crucial part, and I think many individuals will be facing problems in this only. Even if you understand your Role there are other factors like - Donot get carried away with emotions, pressure - of various kinds like peer, managerial, pressure of being caught guilty,pressure from any Individual, work pressure. Toughest thing being - sticking to what us expected out from you(your role). Following processes also is one of the aspect - manyindividuals find difficult to work on with. Rational thinking is one such imp aspects. I found myself keeping away from this and I am learning to change on this one. there are of various things that I am experiencing/learning when I see myself and my team-mates and all the things that are going on these days.
But theres is one fact also - Professionalism will be effective and one will be able to adopt this easily when you certainly know that, thats how the team and the business operates. If one has any prejudice(which everyone will certainly have but willnot talk about) then you cannot walk on the path of being Professional.
I had a chat with one of my team-mates abt few such observations that I had abt him and saw him change in a day. First day when everyone noticed change in his behavior - he sounded somewhat arrogant, trying to run away from work and so on. And this change was very predominant. Hats off to him to be able to change the style he communicates, the things he was able to address within such a short time. !
In general when taking any decision in life - how can one be professional ? Replicate what I learn from the office stuff to other places in my life. Do we have a clear role definition in our relations ? r they meant for this ? or one should not be "Professional" in relations ? or should not ONLY be professional ?! In case of social organizations how is this handled ? how is this handled in JP ? and more importantly how do we stick to this ? Or there we give reasons.. I agree there can/are many aspects in life, attitudes which might be more meaningful than being "professional" in relations and may be other areas of life, but Analysis - one more aspect of Professionalism i feel should stand valid and meaningful in all the areas of our lifes. Saying this I still feel that we do lot of analysis in JP but still lack professionalism(may be due to obscurity in roles or for n no. of Reasons)
All such comparisons are good to have, I am currently enjoying the same..
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Astitva, Jonathan, Wyadeshwar, HeartBeats, Aryan, CastAway, Gappa... !
This saturday and sunday was very different..
Title contains the things that I have experienced over the weekend. Friday night I read a book by Sudha Murti 'Astitva'. Weekend morning started off with reading of Jonathan and was followed by a lunch(breakfast) at Wyadeshwar. Back to home with chinmay and sachin. In the evening I had been to a music program by 5 maestros 'HeartBeats'. This was fantastic, especially Zakir Husain and Shankar Mahadevan. I listened to Mendolin for the first time and E. Shriniwasan was superb. Show ended with bhajan 'Raghupati Raghav Rajaram' and this still is there in my ears. I was accompanied by Chinmay and as always he was busy with other stuff(than music).. :)
I had dinner at a place called 'Aryan' and 7-8 of us were there. Mumbai incidence is still very fresh in the minds of all the people. And was the main topic of discussion. As we were accompanied by Nikhil, rajkaran and latest 'Breaking News' - Narayan Rane's act, was being chewed too. :) But I really appreciate the AMOUNT of information that he has and manier times his views on this.
Sunday in the morning I visited a centre 'Success guru' for a seminar, and was interesting. The guy doing the ppt was interesting too. Lot of confidence, good aggressive approach. In the afternoon I saw 'CastAway' and the movie is just fabulous. Thought provoking. My parents were back by 9.30 and we had gappa till 12.30 and the vishay was 'Relatives' to be precise 'Relations'.
I am writing few details like we write when we start writing a diary(initial days - like writing routine), because I just wanted to summarize what all I have done/ with whom. For the most of the time over the weekend I was accompanied by many of my friends but I still wanted to be alone. I had this feeling very prominently and no negation too in this feeling. Other thing I noticed was I was trying to keep myself away from the March that we(JPYV) were having on sunday. Again I feel there was no negation in this.
And yes most of these experiences really were truly giving me sense of 'Anand'. Reading/Listening/Seeing - all ways of receiving covered over the weekend.
Title contains the things that I have experienced over the weekend. Friday night I read a book by Sudha Murti 'Astitva'. Weekend morning started off with reading of Jonathan and was followed by a lunch(breakfast) at Wyadeshwar. Back to home with chinmay and sachin. In the evening I had been to a music program by 5 maestros 'HeartBeats'. This was fantastic, especially Zakir Husain and Shankar Mahadevan. I listened to Mendolin for the first time and E. Shriniwasan was superb. Show ended with bhajan 'Raghupati Raghav Rajaram' and this still is there in my ears. I was accompanied by Chinmay and as always he was busy with other stuff(than music).. :)
I had dinner at a place called 'Aryan' and 7-8 of us were there. Mumbai incidence is still very fresh in the minds of all the people. And was the main topic of discussion. As we were accompanied by Nikhil, rajkaran and latest 'Breaking News' - Narayan Rane's act, was being chewed too. :) But I really appreciate the AMOUNT of information that he has and manier times his views on this.
Sunday in the morning I visited a centre 'Success guru' for a seminar, and was interesting. The guy doing the ppt was interesting too. Lot of confidence, good aggressive approach. In the afternoon I saw 'CastAway' and the movie is just fabulous. Thought provoking. My parents were back by 9.30 and we had gappa till 12.30 and the vishay was 'Relatives' to be precise 'Relations'.
I am writing few details like we write when we start writing a diary(initial days - like writing routine), because I just wanted to summarize what all I have done/ with whom. For the most of the time over the weekend I was accompanied by many of my friends but I still wanted to be alone. I had this feeling very prominently and no negation too in this feeling. Other thing I noticed was I was trying to keep myself away from the March that we(JPYV) were having on sunday. Again I feel there was no negation in this.
And yes most of these experiences really were truly giving me sense of 'Anand'. Reading/Listening/Seeing - all ways of receiving covered over the weekend.
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
BE Strong
Few set-backs. Hard to digest, pan try to be positive, strong and aggressive.
Negative to Positive. I have to go this way.
Negative to Positive. I have to go this way.
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
Theme Day.....GO GREEN - LIVE GREEN..
02 Nov 2007 - We had something that is termed as Theme day in the office. My team is a huge team (60-65 ppl) comprising of 4-5 groups. Still looking at that no. - Yeah my manager is a DON. Coming back to the topic, the concept is we had to decorate our cubicles to describe the theme and yes we had decided that we all would bring up a same Theme.
Deciding upon the theme, as I had earlier thought, didnot take much time - ppl are manier times short of Ideas.. :). Recently we all had seen a short film on Global Warming and one my frnds suggested the same as a theme. The theme had the potential subject and also the potential scenery that can be brought up.
There were 2 days for the preparation. As expected we didnot do anything till we reached in the nick of time. We had Team Meetings to decide upon three pet questions - what, who & when. Really these 3 Ws are part of our life and I dont see any way escaping out of these. I dont mean I want a way out..!
Friday Morning .. I had to be at home till 9.00 in the morning and as was expected out of me could not reach office early. When I reached there, few of my colleagues were sitting on the floor doing cut-paste (not on PC - at least at times we do something different), in 1 of our cubicle we had taken Jungle/Forest as a theme - and in the subsequent cubicle we had the dark & polluted earth. The jungalees (i mean ppl who sit in the same cubicle) were busy designing trees, rivers, animals, jungle noise and what not.. and we the ppl gifted with pollution were busy building industries, loads of buildings and roads and stuff. Ppl can come early in the morning to office - firm belief that I had that day.. ! It was i guess 10-10.30 and we were ready for the event. Our moto was Go Green - Live Green and so ppl had dressed in green.
Then I along with few of my frnds walked out to see the other side of the hall to see creativity at PTC. And I was so amazed to see whole lot of ideas and panorama of the same. The moment I entered the hall I heard a bell that sounded like a school bell and immediately saw a bunch of school boys and girls. The Part Shala of the Part management team was amazing .All the team was dressed uniformly as if like in uniform and the school babes ..(Girls I mean) were looking good. The best one was a guy who was looking like a Peon. The second group which caught hold of our attraction was the 'Jab We Ate' chefs, this team had a Restaurant and Bar theme. Not to my surprise many of my frnds were attracted towards the Bar. The hats these guys had wore were building up the main scene. There were quite a few good themes - One was WADLABS(Multiplex) and they had all the new movie posters all around the place - The name plate 'WADLABS' decoration was good. Yet another theme had caught hold of politicians - and the theme was named 'Kab Tak'. People had dressed to suit the theme and Karunanidhi was amazing. ! In the afternoon my team (60folks) visited all the other teams to see and this event was very noisy. We were far more huge, loud & brainy for others to stand in front of us and it showed up in the end result.
We won the competition, and I was beaming with mates. Yes the experience really was awesome and the involvement put up and exhibited by the mates was avid. This experience was sort of instauration for me and the exposure of ideas, innovation, creativity and resourcefulness was awe-inspiring. I will cherish this experience for a long time.... !
Deciding upon the theme, as I had earlier thought, didnot take much time - ppl are manier times short of Ideas.. :). Recently we all had seen a short film on Global Warming and one my frnds suggested the same as a theme. The theme had the potential subject and also the potential scenery that can be brought up.
There were 2 days for the preparation. As expected we didnot do anything till we reached in the nick of time. We had Team Meetings to decide upon three pet questions - what, who & when. Really these 3 Ws are part of our life and I dont see any way escaping out of these. I dont mean I want a way out..!
Friday Morning .. I had to be at home till 9.00 in the morning and as was expected out of me could not reach office early. When I reached there, few of my colleagues were sitting on the floor doing cut-paste (not on PC - at least at times we do something different), in 1 of our cubicle we had taken Jungle/Forest as a theme - and in the subsequent cubicle we had the dark & polluted earth. The jungalees (i mean ppl who sit in the same cubicle) were busy designing trees, rivers, animals, jungle noise and what not.. and we the ppl gifted with pollution were busy building industries, loads of buildings and roads and stuff. Ppl can come early in the morning to office - firm belief that I had that day.. ! It was i guess 10-10.30 and we were ready for the event. Our moto was Go Green - Live Green and so ppl had dressed in green.
Then I along with few of my frnds walked out to see the other side of the hall to see creativity at PTC. And I was so amazed to see whole lot of ideas and panorama of the same. The moment I entered the hall I heard a bell that sounded like a school bell and immediately saw a bunch of school boys and girls. The Part Shala of the Part management team was amazing .All the team was dressed uniformly as if like in uniform and the school babes ..(Girls I mean) were looking good. The best one was a guy who was looking like a Peon. The second group which caught hold of our attraction was the 'Jab We Ate' chefs, this team had a Restaurant and Bar theme. Not to my surprise many of my frnds were attracted towards the Bar. The hats these guys had wore were building up the main scene. There were quite a few good themes - One was WADLABS(Multiplex) and they had all the new movie posters all around the place - The name plate 'WADLABS' decoration was good. Yet another theme had caught hold of politicians - and the theme was named 'Kab Tak'. People had dressed to suit the theme and Karunanidhi was amazing. ! In the afternoon my team (60folks) visited all the other teams to see and this event was very noisy. We were far more huge, loud & brainy for others to stand in front of us and it showed up in the end result.
We won the competition, and I was beaming with mates. Yes the experience really was awesome and the involvement put up and exhibited by the mates was avid. This experience was sort of instauration for me and the exposure of ideas, innovation, creativity and resourcefulness was awe-inspiring. I will cherish this experience for a long time.... !
Friday, 17 August 2007
TREK - Tikona !
I had been to Tikona - a fort near by Pune, this Sunday. One of our dal had their Rainy Trek to this fort.The rain was OK and did not lead us to nervousness ,, we didn't wanted to be in too much of rain. !
The weather was just too good - we were out of our houses at arnd 10.00 in the morning and it took 1.5 hrs for us to reach to the village beneath the fort.This fort is near one of the dams - Pawana dam - this place again is so beautiful. I was amazed not to see any 'Hatgadi' - no Vadapav, no tea, not even a single hatgadi/hotel near the place, well there are still quite a few places left for the Janata to come and bungle.Another fort 'Tung' stands surefooted and straight ahead of our eyes. I just read a very good Marathi book 'Pawana kathacha Dhondi' and Dhondi came to mind. This really was a joyous memory of the book.
Ahead we went and took part in a Dirt Racing competition. Not to win over anyone but if felt down just to loose. The street was full of mud and water - Hats of the my rider frnd Anirudha who drove me. He told me one thing 'Jiv muthit gheun Bas' and i like a obedient child did the same. Well what else could i have done sitting at the back.. Climbing as we had earlier thought, was not at all bad and both of were up to the Fort in one go.Artists have there own eye of looking at things.. a thing i could realize while we were going up. My frnd ani is a photo grapher..thank god he didn't bring his camera , thinking we would face heavy rain. Every now and then he could sense a picture he can capture and used to tell me this photo if taken with slow shutter speed would be awesome. I was wondering thru out ..Reachin the top we sat for a while in a temple - neatly maintained, ambient. Then we walked over a few places on the fort.
I always have mixed reactions /feelings in my mind while i am onto a trsk. Treks as a matter are like, when i am into the walking stage of it, make me feel what am i doin here - could have had a better time out some where relaxing enjoying, but the moment i look out of self - it gives immense pleasure. Pleasure of being physically exhaust, pleasure to look out the beauty of nature ,pleasure of being with frnds singing out padya/gani/bhajans,pleasure of being at places where Shivaji maharaj actually can be memorized in a far better way.!!
The weather was just too good - we were out of our houses at arnd 10.00 in the morning and it took 1.5 hrs for us to reach to the village beneath the fort.This fort is near one of the dams - Pawana dam - this place again is so beautiful. I was amazed not to see any 'Hatgadi' - no Vadapav, no tea, not even a single hatgadi/hotel near the place, well there are still quite a few places left for the Janata to come and bungle.Another fort 'Tung' stands surefooted and straight ahead of our eyes. I just read a very good Marathi book 'Pawana kathacha Dhondi' and Dhondi came to mind. This really was a joyous memory of the book.
Ahead we went and took part in a Dirt Racing competition. Not to win over anyone but if felt down just to loose. The street was full of mud and water - Hats of the my rider frnd Anirudha who drove me. He told me one thing 'Jiv muthit gheun Bas' and i like a obedient child did the same. Well what else could i have done sitting at the back.. Climbing as we had earlier thought, was not at all bad and both of were up to the Fort in one go.Artists have there own eye of looking at things.. a thing i could realize while we were going up. My frnd ani is a photo grapher..thank god he didn't bring his camera , thinking we would face heavy rain. Every now and then he could sense a picture he can capture and used to tell me this photo if taken with slow shutter speed would be awesome. I was wondering thru out ..Reachin the top we sat for a while in a temple - neatly maintained, ambient. Then we walked over a few places on the fort.
I always have mixed reactions /feelings in my mind while i am onto a trsk. Treks as a matter are like, when i am into the walking stage of it, make me feel what am i doin here - could have had a better time out some where relaxing enjoying, but the moment i look out of self - it gives immense pleasure. Pleasure of being physically exhaust, pleasure to look out the beauty of nature ,pleasure of being with frnds singing out padya/gani/bhajans,pleasure of being at places where Shivaji maharaj actually can be memorized in a far better way.!!
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
First Post
hi
Well I was thinking of creating a chance for me to jot-down/write sown some thing.
Have been reading quite a few blogs - Sudeep i visit u quite often. So that way Sudeep has been one of the motivators :)
Well would like to introduce myself a bit!
Introducing self - U really need to know what r u- ur ture likes/dislikes ? how du u want to be known by ppl ?
So my likes - Yeah - Foood .. i am in a way Fun loving guy - want to enjoy every moment .. would like to state one thing here in 'Introduction section' -hehe, I love and am pround of being an activist/working for an NGO - Jnana Prabodhini.
Dislikes - well hard to find and state.. !
So am here to share my world of experiences/thoughts/imotions ..
Cheers!
Yogeshwar.
Well I was thinking of creating a chance for me to jot-down/write sown some thing.
Have been reading quite a few blogs - Sudeep i visit u quite often. So that way Sudeep has been one of the motivators :)
Well would like to introduce myself a bit!
Introducing self - U really need to know what r u- ur ture likes/dislikes ? how du u want to be known by ppl ?
So my likes - Yeah - Foood .. i am in a way Fun loving guy - want to enjoy every moment .. would like to state one thing here in 'Introduction section' -hehe, I love and am pround of being an activist/working for an NGO - Jnana Prabodhini.
Dislikes - well hard to find and state.. !
So am here to share my world of experiences/thoughts/imotions ..
Cheers!
Yogeshwar.
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