Quick background Have you ever thought your manager keeps shelling out more on your plate other than the officially tracked tasks? Do not feel bad. You are not alone My manager recently asked me to clean up the build server we use for our project. To put simply, it was a mess. I ended up [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Office’
Intel-speak during out-of-office hours
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 [...]
Chaos!
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 [...]
Management Gibberish
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. Link to this post!
Performance appraisals – Should they be so complex?
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 [...]
Meeting the customers!
[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 [...]
Workplace redefined!
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 long [...]
Goodbye E5076
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 [...]
