How does one enable people who dont want to be enabled? The classic case would be one where you have a top down approach and the management wants to go one way while the rest of the team is comfortable where they are. In such a situation, to an outsider, it would require an unbiased [...]
Entries from March 2005
March 29, 2005
Meet the Cousins
I planned to spend the Easter weekend with my cousin in Tulsa, Oklahoma and also meet 2 of his siblings. He had got married last year in Bangalore and both his wife and him are doctors in Tulsa. After cruising around the place on Saturday morning and eating some great home food, we went to [...]
March 22, 2005
XP rules
From a slow start, our project is moving forward purposefully. We have got the dev team involved in our stand ups and we’re passing around a small basketball to indicate who gets to speak. We had started with an orange, but it got squishy after a couple of days.
I set up a wiki on my [...]
March 15, 2005
Bite of the Big Apple
Couple of my colleagues on other projects and me had planned a trip to New York over the weekend. The weather forecast was rain and snow but hadnt much of a choice, having booked our tickets and hotel in advance.Times SquareWe reached on Friday evening and found that the weather wasnt that bad at all. [...]
March 9, 2005
Snow and XP
Yesterday was such a lovely day (by Cleveland standards) with clear skies and tenmperature in the 40s. This morning I woke up to see this scene outsideInches of snow fell overnight and it was still snowing heavily. Temperatures dropped to the 20s overnight. Brrr….
This is the view from our temporary office in the client’s building.We [...]
March 6, 2005
Do we really need this
I was watching television today and saw a zillion of these commercials. They seem to be advertising absolutely nothing. You see a family playing with their dog, or cleaning their swimming pool, or maybe walking their pet tortoise. Then suddenly you see in font size 72 letters “Call your doctor now, you need a Ketozin”. [...]
March 4, 2005
Special service
A very interesting thing happened to us a couple of days ago. We had gone with the client project manager for lunch to the ‘usual’ Mexican hangout – yes, Chipotle. Ordered, food was readied and we consumed it over a discussion about travel and cuisines of the world.
We had finished the food and were still [...]
March 2, 2005
Frosty the snowman
Arrived in Cleveland on Sunday and the first day of my new project was on Monday. Its going well so far and most people are friendly.
Today, it snowed here and quite a bit. In fact, its a snow storm. Lucky we got ourselves groceris and so dont have to go out to eat today.View from [...]
