To start with wish you all ( "Sarvadhari nama sanvastra shubhakankshalu") a very happy telugu new year UGADI!. This festival completes one year of me missing all the festival celebrations in India and missing the celebration from all my family members. Is this something to be proud off? I don't think so. Anyways, let me continue with the continuation of my previous post "Project Round Up!". In that previous post I explained about all my project. Here goes the personnel gains and losses in the last one year.
What a co-incidence that my annual review is on the same day as telugu new year. To sum it up I feel that on personnel grounds it has been a tie with 50-50 results for gains/ losses. By the way how can I quantify?
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Project Round Up!
A recap of the last one year that I spent in this distant land thousands of miles away from family and friends. Trying to highlight the gains and the losses that I had in the last one year. The journey has been a roller coaster ride making me experience the highs and lows both personally and professionally.
Frankly speaking, it was a dream to come to US and work here. Wanted to experience the life style, wanted to see how my friends lived in this glorious country and most important of all wanted to test myself, if I could survive on my own being away from my family.
A year ago this was the day when I started working and experiencing the professional life here, kind of interesting and funny that a start which I had been waiting began on FOOL'S DAY! May be my destiny was following the now famous quote by Steve Jobs "Stay Foolish! Stay Hungry!".
Professionally the project that I have been working on had given me a lot to learn both technically and politically. The time I started on this journey I had the thought of prooving myself in a place where no one knows me, I guess I achieved it to some extent. The project has made me learn the technical skills, the consulting skills and the politics. Most important of all the lessons that I learnt from my peers, colleagues and friends will have a lasting impact on my for the rest of my career.
I am involved in this project from the intial phase of the development and saw the life cycle of the project move from a point where there was a talk about integrating systems to the integrated systems. The project introduced me to people whom I may never forget for the rest of my life both personally and professionally. I have come across some good human beings, techie geeks, shrewed consultants and technical thopes. Some strong managers, some people who are really humble inspite of the immense knowledge they have, some technical thopes, some show off dudes, some interesting characters, some never say die attitude folks, some true consultants, some hard working managers, some survival stars, some strict officers.
The experience of being in a project for a full life cycle has made me learn how to build relationships, how to win confidence of fellow team mates, how to protect your selfrespect, how not to loose your cool, how to resolve problems, how to let things go off, how to take responsibilities and at the same time stay safe, how not to get attached to what you do! Some of the quotes that I can remember from this project in this one year are:
"Build Relationships!"
"Do not take complete responsibility. Share your responsibilities and never be in a position where you cannot be replaced. Always have a replacement planned for your work!"
"Be a true consultant!"
"Project Your Work!"
"Let Things Go!"
"Go Home! Don't work late!" :D
"How badly you want to achieve something really matters!"
And mathematically: 1 multiplied by any number is not always the same number.
"Where is my penny?"
Having said all the above statements my personal judgement has been "if you have a good relationship with your colleagues, peers, client and managers in the team, people do not mind going that extra mile to help you! People don't always work for money, they sometimes work for the relationship that you maintain!"
"Know the different possible solutions even though you haven't implemented / worked on them, because they will bring you the identity if used properly!" And most important have friends!
Some sleepless nights, weekends is the price paid to the vast experience I gained in this project. I am sure these lessons will help me grow professionally.
Has the project been so boring with only work work and work, of course not, we had our own share of fun, friendship, crushes. I should also not forget to mention that though I may get engaged only once in real life, people made engaged me everytime I was on a vactaction to India. In a way I am one of the popular / most eligible bachelor for all my team wishes me to get married. The project has also made me learn the difference between laddu and rasgulla! ;-) The plus points of settling for a laddu compared to a rasgulla! ha.ha.
I am the eldest son of my family but the project has left me so many elder brothers that I am called as "Thammudu" (Younger Brother).
This has been the project experience. Watch out for my personnal gains / losses.
Frankly speaking, it was a dream to come to US and work here. Wanted to experience the life style, wanted to see how my friends lived in this glorious country and most important of all wanted to test myself, if I could survive on my own being away from my family.
A year ago this was the day when I started working and experiencing the professional life here, kind of interesting and funny that a start which I had been waiting began on FOOL'S DAY! May be my destiny was following the now famous quote by Steve Jobs "Stay Foolish! Stay Hungry!".
Professionally the project that I have been working on had given me a lot to learn both technically and politically. The time I started on this journey I had the thought of prooving myself in a place where no one knows me, I guess I achieved it to some extent. The project has made me learn the technical skills, the consulting skills and the politics. Most important of all the lessons that I learnt from my peers, colleagues and friends will have a lasting impact on my for the rest of my career.
I am involved in this project from the intial phase of the development and saw the life cycle of the project move from a point where there was a talk about integrating systems to the integrated systems. The project introduced me to people whom I may never forget for the rest of my life both personally and professionally. I have come across some good human beings, techie geeks, shrewed consultants and technical thopes. Some strong managers, some people who are really humble inspite of the immense knowledge they have, some technical thopes, some show off dudes, some interesting characters, some never say die attitude folks, some true consultants, some hard working managers, some survival stars, some strict officers.
The experience of being in a project for a full life cycle has made me learn how to build relationships, how to win confidence of fellow team mates, how to protect your selfrespect, how not to loose your cool, how to resolve problems, how to let things go off, how to take responsibilities and at the same time stay safe, how not to get attached to what you do! Some of the quotes that I can remember from this project in this one year are:
"Build Relationships!"
"Do not take complete responsibility. Share your responsibilities and never be in a position where you cannot be replaced. Always have a replacement planned for your work!"
"Be a true consultant!"
"Project Your Work!"
"Let Things Go!"
"Go Home! Don't work late!" :D
"How badly you want to achieve something really matters!"
And mathematically: 1 multiplied by any number is not always the same number.
"Where is my penny?"
Having said all the above statements my personal judgement has been "if you have a good relationship with your colleagues, peers, client and managers in the team, people do not mind going that extra mile to help you! People don't always work for money, they sometimes work for the relationship that you maintain!"
"Know the different possible solutions even though you haven't implemented / worked on them, because they will bring you the identity if used properly!" And most important have friends!
Some sleepless nights, weekends is the price paid to the vast experience I gained in this project. I am sure these lessons will help me grow professionally.
Has the project been so boring with only work work and work, of course not, we had our own share of fun, friendship, crushes. I should also not forget to mention that though I may get engaged only once in real life, people made engaged me everytime I was on a vactaction to India. In a way I am one of the popular / most eligible bachelor for all my team wishes me to get married. The project has also made me learn the difference between laddu and rasgulla! ;-) The plus points of settling for a laddu compared to a rasgulla! ha.ha.
I am the eldest son of my family but the project has left me so many elder brothers that I am called as "Thammudu" (Younger Brother).
This has been the project experience. Watch out for my personnal gains / losses.
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