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MSEB � Pune (India)
Jonogon,
I�ll always
cherish the time spent, being involved Su-Deep-ly with a core team of 10
guys handling the work of Sau-Men, which according to many, waS umanly
impossible. For the last 6 months, the Roy-al MSEB Sarkar-i office
had become part office and Part Ho-me, firing column and Rao
fetches, on difficult Data r-ecords, late into the night, working hard to
make our Bhartiya software, world-class. We had our successes and our
failures. Kabhi haar thi, kabhi Ari-jeet. For the Subha-anchoring
PwC team to have demonstrated su-Ch ander-standing of the system, to Shek
har out of it�s various testing phases, deserves praise. Even as we faced
the pleasant, as well as the Harsh ali-terations of a consultants life,
we came home wiser, from each Dey�s client interaction.
You know, how, Sam bits and bytes of memories stay resident in the mind long after the events have happened, about trips, dams, Sinha-gad, giving us opportunities to discover the long lost Brat in ourselves. There were the Priti moments and the not-so-pretty ones, the heKKtic ones and the not-so-hectic ones, most of the times we had the bugs cornered, but sometimes the bugs Konnur-ed us, when our software demonstrated Sam eer-ie and unexplained behaviour. Par mann mein hai Biswas ke Abhi door nahi who Suboh, jab hogi hamari jeet.
But even
though yeh dil hai ke Mane naa, its time to say Au Revoir.
All the best to the whole team.
AFL � Bombay (India)
In designing a system with enough complexity to
me-kh a lid blow up over any sane mind, the challenges were quite clear.
Ca-n it in-clude, both ra-pid application development with a focus
on quality. It was critical to realise that every chota-sa chin-tu sa
requirement added at a later stage can increase the cr-ash fak-tor
substantially. Which is why it was important to answer questions like 'A-m i
tali-ying my design with the
Our ideas wouldn't go f-ar if it weren't for
the hard work that went in. But hectic schedules, also meant that we forgo-t
anveersaries & birthdays, and saw many a festival (say Diwali or Se
khri-smas) pass us by.
There were times when we had our Joy dip-ped
in sorrow, when all of a sudden, the same er-rors resurfaced in our
oracle Datta-base, gripped us in its deep ali-gator-like vice and
drove us in-Sen. Gave us the feeling - I'd be better of in sam rat infested
jungle, than fix these errors. But in du-e course of time, vi dya-bolically
located the problem areas, vi pin-pointed the bugs,
and gaut em eliminated with pana-che, than-x to a nu pam-anently
applicable debugging process which was fu-n and it a-lways worked.
But who can change destiny's lekha-jokha,
bcoz ultimately, hom i-s where the heart is. And at the end of the day
when the Batti goes off and our new system makes it Deb-ut, I'm
sure we'll come out Aparajit a-nd victorious and the users will have a
lot of Santosh, using it.
All the best to the team.
CEEDS � Washington D.C (USA)
LaSt evening,
as I was recapitulating the CEEDS journey so far, a lot of thoughts crossed my
mind. 'It is going to be a tough journey' is what people had said and they would
continue to Warn er-nestly, but nothing would have Robbed or
diluted the enthusiasm put in by team members from both sides.
When a system has
been designed with so much Kare 'n affection, you would've expected the
original team to have stuck around to see it go live. But destiny had other
things in store.
And rea-lly,
foR a java project of this complexity, there were times when we felt, we
were stuck up in a Jam especially during the analysis and design
discussions.
The Same ergonomics
applied to the UI design as well that involved the latest JSP/Jaova/EJB
technology.
We were privileged
to have Seen thia-trical performances by the saMurais from various
teams on several occasions, beKaus hiked up complexity does introduce
such challenges.
Barring
a few 'technically infeasible' bugs, aS u dip targetted and prioritized
TPRs into the resolved category, with a strong Will and a 'cAn-and-will-do'
attitude, I am pleased to see that the project activities are still going
strong. Helping the teaM azum (assume) darkness is a fleeting
phase.
All the best to all
teams involved.
Till we meet again.
Au revoir.
Sameer
DELTA � Manchester (UK)
TouCHING SANd castles before they are built,
can CHANge the entire perspective, leaving NO ELbow room to regain
lost ground, in the NICK of time. All you can do then, is to be there JUST
INtime to PICK ARDent bits of the FLOWERy memories, whiCH
RISkily enough are just sufficient to get you across the rough sea till the
final MORCEL LAsts. But it is beyond the power of homo-sapIANs, to
ARGHYA(argue) with destiny. AND You know, as Big Brother up there
is watching, the lucKIER ANd Fortunate Survivors will move on, with the SAME
ERnest attitude, to see another day.
So till our paths cross again, its au revoir to U
all.
Ciao.
FTGMP � Bangalore (India)
The FTGMP (Fantastic Time Generating Multiple
Presentations) course saw every Tommy, Dick and Hari slogging it
out. There is no doubt that the debate of less (10 weeks) versus MOR IS
eternal and hence we aRE JIttery about the future. But we did undersTAND
ONe thing. Each participant, equipped with a 'cAN-AND-will-do'
attitude, can now respond to challenges like a well trained jacKAL EEMmidiately.
The attempts to COMMAND ERnest understanding of the MAD HUstling that the world would subject one to, were dissected.
These introspection sessions proved that those who SIN
HAve to pay for the SAME ERrors later on. As the SUN ILluminates
the heaVEN, KATastrophical events will vanish and help your auRA
MESH with the divine.
The marketing sessions saw the prof fetCH AND RIKArd
(record) umpteen examples from real life to prove a point. He also SANK ARtistic
hypotheses with sharp counter-arguments. Another aspect of creative advertising
was that A ROAR A day keeps the competitors away and makes HE-MAN THink
twice before messing with your firm.
The Yoga training gave us the ability to activate our
innermost CHAKRA, WORTHY of every ones praise. We can now explain
the phenomenon of our anger and RAJE SHooting up frequently.
To conclude I guess it wasn't a bad decision after all to
forGO PALtry savings to attend the course.
Now at the end of the course, we feel the relief, exactly
like AN ANT HAppens to feel...satisfied, after a mission successfully
accomplished. Perennially from now, Dec to JAN, ARDHANginis
(wives) of participants will be proud of their accomplishments.
Congrats folks for surviving the experience.
DBS (Development Bank of Singapore � Singapore
As the Sun darkens
on another heKKtic day (it's close to 1 am), after sending the final
status report, I'm excited to recapitulate the accomplishments over the
last couple of months. As the team got down to pLay, Tinkering
with the complexities of the various packages. The overall Vision, plus
the strategy was clear from the outset, meeting the challenges head-on and Systematically.
We had to be careful not to repeat the Same errors by leveraging and
learning from the earlier iterations and experience.
For most onsite
team members who were far away from Holm, bergerKing and
MacDonalds met their nutritional needs. Extrapaulating and mitigating the
risks formed the key criteria that aided in making Kwantum jumps, going
beyond expectations and wrapping the entire exercise rapidly.
The aggressive
deadlines, called for extraordinary analytical fLair, quenching
the customer's need for large amounts of statistical data within apparently
impractical timeframes. How the packages operate and function, points
unambiguously to the project objective and hence defines the scope. In order to
record SME interactions, we explored various media formats (.wav, .avi), sheking
the foundation of conventional data capture methods.
While the team
applies the finishing Touches and continues to paint the FP canVas,
anthropological remains of the dissected enhancements have been preserved
in the Team Room.
As our association
continues into the RIO2 baselining work, we know it caN and indeed will
throw up new challenges. So please do not consider this as farewell note (atleast
not yet). Just a small, and probably unconventional, way of saying 'Thanks' to
all of you for your support and contribution to the successful completion of the
Package Enhancements counting challenge.
Thanks and regards
Cambridge MBA