Intel-speak during out-of-office hours

kannanmr on August 8th, 2008

Office talk! There is no denying that the corporate work culture has a big impact on our off-office life. For example, if you are a SW development manager by profession, you automatically tend to map many of the things learnt in the office on to normal house activities - ‘Lets put a detailed requirements list for the the new entertainment unit we are going to buy this weekend”, “Hmm…this seems too risky. We need to think of the mitigation plans now before going on with this!”. If your partner is not from IT background, God help you! :)

How many times have we checked ourselves after looking at the blank / quizzical stares from others?! It has happened more than once in my case! Today, during lunch time, I decided to watch out for Intel lingo that people use. Kinda funny to notice so many of the corporate terms becoming a part of our day-to-day vocabulary.

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Chaos!

kannanmr on May 25th, 2007

Lot of things happening right now in my life; Am stuck in the middle of a group transition, with the additional responsibility of arranging a function in my house (Ahhh!) + my pet projects demanding more and more time….Whew, I wonder how the company senior VPs and GMs manage to squeeze in some time for […]

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Management Gibberish

kannanmr on March 30th, 2007

An effective way to stop managers talking!

If you don’t see the image above, click here. Some more of my images are availale here.

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We went through the performance appraisal phase in my company last quarter. As we had come to expect, it was one of the stressful periods, so much that we literally threw a party when 360degree feedbacks were prepared and sent (ok, am just kidding. But, you get the point!). We call this process FOCAL; when […]

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Meeting the customers!

kannanmr on January 31st, 2006

[Sorry, Dilbert image no longer available]
This reminded me of my conversation with one of my customers (internal) last week. I was trying to sell him my teams tool. I setup a meeting requesting him to give us what his generic requirements are (basically what he is looking for!), so that we could make a detailed […]

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Workplace redefined!

kannanmr on January 29th, 2006

I have rearranged my monitors, this time to make it easier for me to read lengthy contents
I got this idea from Adam Nathan’ s Channel 9 interview. He was demonstrating his WinFX based Hearts game and was actually going through the code using this setup.
Though I find this setup good for reviewing/coding/reading […]

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Goodbye E5076

kannanmr on September 29th, 2004

My team is moving to sixth floor tomorrow. I have got a big box sitting in my cube, which I have to use for packing all my junk. Who knows? I might find my parker which I lost 2 months back. Kidding apart, I am worried about my Z-Pro. Can I depend on the office […]

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