Losing good resource

My team lost a good resource; a resource full of talent and dedication to the work. But we couldn't retain because we couldn't find ideal work for her and even rated badly for her dedication. I can't explain, how much helpless I was feeling at that time. I know, I am reacting little bit but nobody can stop me thinking about the wrong thing we do in IT. We could have retain her just by being little honest while rating and providing good work or encouraging her leading a group of technical people to do something different. A manager should plan for individual team members to avoid such organizational loss.

I hate micro management...

A real manager never do micro management unless he/she is selfish about his position or grow inside the organization. It's very bad for the organization directly or indirectly. Members suffer under his/her management and moral as well as quality of work culture goes down. Groups form and politics starts which is really bad for the members as well.Uhhh...I hate this and really become surprise about seeing such managers in a organization. They loose good people and responsible for the degradation of the quality of work in the organization. They take the shortcuts for the success and also motivate others to do that, in return they create a lot of issues inside the organization and people does not like them. I wish nobody get such manager in industry like IT.

Challenges in a leadership roal....

It's been 3yrs leading teams for different projects and still have a doubt. Whether should I work for client or work for building a real good team? I know everyone will say both, but in real scenario it does not happen. I have realized building a real good team can deliver much more to the client, so I always try to build the team first, bringing them into a level where we should discuss more about process improvement rather than project technical stuff. Everyone can learn technology but very rare people understand the business for which we are building the technology. The day team understands the real business requirement and it's impact, then they build the real product, which make real difference. A company should focus more on this to build real team and real lead, a lead who can be the father of his team and the real mentor. Wish I could be that lead..!!

Another project and another team..!!

Back to track again...once again a challenging project and a very fresh team. Challenges are in terms of tight schedule and a very new team to the group, who needs time to understand the business. Well automation is also another priority work. Well...let's see...

Finally released from the project

It has been 3yrs I was working for this project in my company. Wow..I am relaxed and so happy now. It was a web development project we started from scratch and I was the last person from vendor site working for this client project. It was a good learning experience though, as I saw a full product life cycle. Right now I am documenting all my experience and process improvement thoughts so that others can get benefits from this. It was so hectic to work for that project when client has so much expectations because of the revenue generting capability of that site(in terms of millions). So I learnt a lot from this project starting from team management to delivery.

Aspen trip..

It was special trip for me, as I met some of my graduation friends at Denver. Then we all went to watch the fall in Aspen with two more new friends Bandana & Umha. The fall watch awsome to watch in Aspen. The drive even cool one, weather was almost with us. This time I have uploaded the photos on Photosynth, a nice tool to create a synth album - Aspen

Theme of Amazon.com

I was lucky enough to attain the Microsoft Experiemental Platform, which was hosted by some great people those have worked for Amazon, the world's biggest online shopping center and now part of the world's biggest company i.e. Microsoft. They shared some great ideas about experimenting new ideas to improve the user experience and ultimately the user engagement on a site. You know..the cool thing about the experiment is to do many mistakes in a faster way so that we increase the probability of success. Yeah...its little abstract but if you recall your schooling time, when our teacher used to say us 'Boy, how will you learn if you don't make mistakes'..Yes its the same. Most of the processes/best practices we follow in IT are nothing but the moral our teachers have tought us in school. Time for us to experiemnt the same; it could be the LEAN(Toyota Way) or Experimental Platform in more technical way.