Yes, it is the end of the beginning of worldwide recession.US financial crisis will hit other sectors of industry like automobile, consumer goods etc. Countries and firms which are heavily exporting to US and EU will grow slow for next one year. Jobs will be less and loans will be tough to get. FII will withdraw money from stock markets; they need to repay their lenders. Stock market will be bearish for next one year. We are officially in recession!! I wish you won’t lose your Job.

1. The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and mal-performance
2. Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better
3. What’s absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.

What will you do if your manager do not listen to your good suggestions and be absolutely adamant towards an inefficient process? Blame him for everything.
That may be the case for me in some other day. But today somehow I didn’t get frustrated. This fine morning I shoot a nicely formatted process improvement suggestion regarding a crap system which takes good 50 days to do a job worth of 5 minutes. I believe I did a good job in communicating the problem. But my manager turned it down on my face giving reasons which I am still trying to understand, (if there is any on earth). He even squarely blamed my old onsite managers for this state of affairs. What I feel is a pure blame game between onsite and offshore managers.

This is a typical scenario for an IT project. What should I do now? Stay quiet and do nothing, get de-motivated and enjoy the donkeys’ work. Or get motivated and apply your all enegery to convince these guys to come and see what the ground realities are. Somehow today I choose the latter one.

Estimation is very important in a software development project. We generally estimates

• Duration - How long it will take to complete the project
• Work Break down structure-A pictorial diagram of different modules
• Resources-How many Managers,developers,Testers it will require
• Deliverables- Business case, Development Plan, Use case model, Test case etc.
• Cost.

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Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore conducted LCube 2008, 3 days of Leadership, Learning and Leisure events on the 10th anniversary of Post Graduate Program in Software Enterprise Management. There are a number of exciting events held over three days between Friday May 30th and Sunday June 1st.I was fortunate to attend few events.

Mr. Harsh Manglik, Chairman and MD, Accenture India inagurated the event and delivered the keynote address on “Leadership from within”

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