Technology plays a crucial role in solving the problem, but just the knowledge of technology is never good enough. Recently came across a discussion on Linked In, focusing on the rapid changes in technology as well as emergence of newer technologies. The rapid pace makes it impossible to know each and every change around you. How useful is it for you...
“You cannot build a tower, building one floor at a time.” I was talking about real towers and not those in the game of blocks. During my mentoring session with an upcoming CEO, we were discussing a product that has a huge scaling potential. “Building a tower requires a solid foundation, strong infrastructure, various support systems, and many other factors, including...
Imagine you are a high-flying sales executive of a big telecom company providing communication and networking solutions to 100s of thousands of businesses as customers. You are staring at this massive screen, which has an information-packed dashboard. The dashboard is packed with all kinds of graphs, maps, charts, infographics representing valuable information from various sources of data like financial data,...
Today we completed a month in the new office. It has been #refreshing to be in the new place. We started #interacting with each other as earlier. With any new thing, there are challenges, however, we have planned many things ahead of time to reduce the pain. Before we signed up for the place, we had evaluated many options. In the end,...
In today's Big Data problems and Data Science solutions, Data Visualization is becoming more important than ever. When the data is large, you need an efficient way of communicating the results. This is what Data visualization is all about. It makes data more natural for the human mind to comprehend. Consider a scenario, where a Data Science team is working...
The week of March 4th to March 11th every year is celebrated as National #Safety Week in India for the last fifty years. The concept of #industrial safety evolved much before the software industry. As a result, the efforts are majorly focused on personal safety during work. This year the focus is on road safety and it involves a much wider population. The...
"How are you planning to measure the ROI on this project?" I asked the CTO of a large enterprise. "Well, it's a no-brainer! We will look at the revenues increased and costs saved on operations!" he answered very quickly. "Is there anything more important than that which this project will deliver?" I wondered. More I started digging into this question, he started...
“Oh! Why are you using the handle of the screwdriver to push this pin? You should be using a hammer, isn’t it?” Several times products are used for a purpose that was never intended during development. “First of all, it saves me time, otherwise I have to waste time switching the tool, also this pin needs to be pushed gently, and...
Recently, I have been writing regularly for our Company. I enjoyed writing about some success stories of our company, about its growth. Every company has success and failure stories. I believe it's enjoyable to write about success stories, but it's not easy to write about something that you have failed in. It's like writing your own failure story. Not very...
Just a few days back, the team was discussing how a certain thing can be achieved using GoLang. As such anything can be done in any programming language, however, how we do a specific thing in GoLang can differ from other languages. There was a very heated discussion, as the same thing could be done in multiple ways, but...
