Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
1.Banana – This is the best especially when you know that you are too busy to take a break for the next 2 hours. In my experience, a banana holds the hunger for at least 2 hours and its also fully packed with nutrients that simply makes it a wonder fruit. It also takes only [...]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Are you a full time employee working 40 packed hours a week and feel hungry very often? If yes, this might be for you. I work from 8.30 to 6 with a 30-45 minute lunch break in between. Mine is mostly physical lab job and so I tend to get hungry very often. They have [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
I cut my hair last week – I cut about 10 inches of hair. I am proud to say that I donated it. Don’t think I am an altruistic person or the like. I wanted to cut my annoying long hair and I also wanted to put some use to it. This is when I [...]
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
The projects that I could think of which are not suitable for getting implemented by virtual teams are construction projects and fieldwork projects. These kind of projects which require some action in the open and whose results are a tangible product like an artifact can be carried out only in collocated team environments. For example, [...]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
1.Interrelationships develop more quickly
2.Team members effectively communicate with one another
3.There is a greater opportunity for feedback and discussions of the project requirements and implementation
4.Collocation facilitates better coordination and results
5.It allows more rapid response to issues and enables processes and tasks to be streamlined.
6.It provides for a more rapid performance of development activities or tasks that [...]
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
There are lot of bugs around, especially ants. My dad today was telling me how he get rid of all the ants in our Chennai house. We used to suck up all the ants in our vacuum cleaner previously. But somehow the ants find their way to kitchen again. So he had this idea. He [...]
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Collocation is the grouping of elements in a team in a specific order that would typically enhance the effectiveness of the team. When a team is formed, it is important to collocate the team members and promote the team into a project area. The closeness and the physical proximity of the employees would provide [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
My opinion is that radical collocation has diminished in companies and businesses over the years and virtual collocation has taken its place. Through the years, science has unraveled many things thus leading to huge technological innovations enabling different fields to come together to create a product. Many of today’s companies have a variety of departments [...]
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
The story that I was talking about that changed a hard core pessimist like me to think optimistic goes like this. So there is this very optimistic 6 year old kid (an optimist by birth) who is famous for his great optimistic remarks. Each morning 5 am, he crawls into his parents bed and mumble [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Most of my gtalk and orkut status messages are “Bad day”, “When will I ever get a good life?”, “When will I ever be happy” and the like. I am a pessimist by birth. My favorite quote is “I can never be an optimist”. You can imagine how much of a pessimist I am! Some [...]
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