Sivaram V. T.

• Death march: Everyone knows that the project is going to be a disaster – except the CEO -- so the truth is hidden to prevent immediate cancellation of the project - (although the CEO often knows and does it anyway to maximise profit). However, the truth remains hidden and the project is artificially kept alive until the Day Zero finally comes ("Big Bang"). Alternative definition: Employees are pressured to work late nights and weekends on a project with an unreasonable deadline.
• Groupthink: During groupthink, members of the group avoid promoting viewpoints outside the comfort zone of consensus thinking
• Smoke and mirrors: Demonstrating how unimplemented -and difficult to implement- functions will appear
• Software bloat: Allowing successive versions of a system to demand ever more resources
• Waterfall model: An older method of software development that inadequately deals with unanticipated change

Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern

I read an interesting article on Capital funding in the thesmarttechie magazine.

The author says that in India, technology start-ups are gonna prosper in the areas like mobility, product making and offering services through SaaS model.

Author also gives tips for entrepreneurs in creating a business in technology space.

• Building a strong trustworthy team
• Creating un-replicable value to clients that can sustain for longer time
• Securing angel funding at the optimal time to validate and improve the business model
• Building scalable business

When you are working as a leader in an organization, you go about doing your duties forgetting the opportunities for you to improve yourself.

In fact every situation presents you an opportunity to improve yourself. You have to be self aware to convert these duties into learning programs.

Interesting article from CEO of Eka software solutions.

Tips which helps you in tasting success in making a software product business.

• Understand the market & customer
• Understand competition
• Start the sales process right in the beginning of software life cycle
• Broaden your value proposition as you move on 
• Synergize with channels to get early sales impetus

Every one would like to have tips. Isn't it?

Check this tipswallet.com.
It is a portal where you can find tips on anything. That is the motto of the site.

I find it useful but it has got very few tips pages. I hope, once it grows, it will be an useful site.

You can even share your tips there. They allow 2 backlinks for every tips article you submit. Pretty nice.

For my recent web application testing, I tried IE 8.0, firefox 3.6, safari, chrome and opera browsers. I was pleasantly surprised about the speed at which opera 10.61 loads the web pages.

It is on windows machine and started loving to browse all over again.Look of the browser is so neat and impressive. But I couldn't get my favorite delicious for opera :(

Now, am forced to use both firefox and opera.

Guys, it is worth trying opera for windows machine. Am sure you would like it.
http://www.opera.com/download/

Recently, I had to work with a manager who follows traditional style of people management. I could sense that he failed utterly in his management. So, I thought to write few words on people management in a business environment.

People management is not an easy job. There are 2 schools of thoughts in people management.
1] Task oriented
2] Relationship oriented

I am not gonna argue on which is the better style but youth prefer the 2nd one and hate the 1st one. It also depends on the context and your sub-ordinates.

The manager I had to face came to me 3/4 times a day asking about the status of the work. He never missed to exaggerate the complexity of the problems. I felt very difficult to work with him & I spent some time in analyzing the reason behind it. Here goes few of them.

1] He didn't want to take the bottom-line responsibility.
2] He had never given me confidence to take up the challenging task but he talks about the complexity of the problem many times a day. This induced fear in me which made me little ineffective towards the work.
3] I was not empowered to produce better result; Authority was not rightly delegated.
4] He didn't trust my abilities.

Thought to post these points here at least for my reference.

Are you a manager? Give your people little breathing space and trust them; You will see the visible difference!