Since all four of them were working on Information Technology projects, Project Management was one of their pet subjects. All except Kingo had passed the PMP certification exam and it was an oft-discussed subject. Kaushik, as always led the discussion to Bridge. If we treat each contract as a project with a certain amount resource, […]
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Kaushik, Kingo, Prabha and Padma were all relaxed as it was year-end and workload at office was less. They decide to use this time to practice and improve their game. The discussion soon got into what is the best method for practice. Kaushik started off by saying that the best way to start practicing is
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All four of the Sarangapani Club came dressed in their Diwali dress. Padma came in a blue sari while Prabha was in a contrasting red and white salwar. Kaushik was looking colourful in a multi-coloured shirt and Kingo was looking handsome in his matching Kurta-churidar. After the Diwali wishes were completed, they decided to play
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All four of them attended a business conference titled “From Good to Great”. They were all very impressed with the speaker and imbibed a lot of good thoughts and ideas and decided to work on it so that they can move forward in the right direction.” Kaushik said that whatever was discussed in the conference
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Kingo, not a strong believer in management principles, was very excited as he heard an extension of the Hare and the Tortoise fable on a management lecture on Teamwork. He burst out, “. We know the moral of first half of the fable. They ran three more races – one easily won by the hare,
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Prabha was smiling as she entered the club as she had just undergone a successful ISO 9000 audit of her project. She was thrilled and exclaimed, “It is such a nice feeling when you come out with just some minor observations in an audit. It was an independent auditor, and he went through all our
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“Data is the new oil” said Kaushik emphatically. He added, “All business decisions are taken based on data and petroleum products which were the key ingredients in yesteryears due to cost of oil has been dethroned now”. Padma has been working on an Information Security project and she nodded in concurrence and made a key
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All of them had appeared for a Project Management course and cleared it but it was Padma who got the highest marks. Based on consensus, the bill was on her today. Padma accepted the request and the congratulations but had a question on basic counting and grammar skills. She asked, “With calculators and computers available
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Padma was all excited as she had just learnt the difference between coaching and training. Before anyone could say anything, she burst out, “Training is all about transferring knowledge while coaching is enhancing knowledge”. Prabha and Kingo were excited as they also did not know the difference. Kaushik knew it all and said that is the reason you have coaches for sports. People have the basic skill and need to enhance their knowledge.
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It was cost cutting time in most companies due to a crash in the financial markets. Big companies were looking at outsourcing operations, technology and other routine jobs to vendor organizations to cut people related costs. While this led to a lot of issues relating to processes not being defined properly, information security and training, companies were going ahead as it was the need of the hour.
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