Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Courtesy - Walk the talk
The key learning is equally powerful: The application of additional heat (effort) to whatever task or activity you undertake will not only help you achieve the primary objective you seek, but also reap exponential rewards that are possible by applying one extra degree of effort.Imagine the possibilities …
Add just a few hours each month to your professional development outside of the work and you will have invested the equivalent of a full work. Make just one extra contact each day …a sales call … a customer … a brief discussion with a col- league … an encouraging talk with a member of your team. With contact comes opportunity. At the end of the year you’ll have opened more than 200 additional doors of possibility.
Eliminate one half hour of television watching each day and you’ll gain 182.5 hours each year to use elsewhere (equivalent to four and a half weeks of work).Imagine YOUR possibilities. Where can you give a little more effort? What small changes can you make that will add up over time? As a leader, what can you do – what will you do – to enjoy the rewards that come from “turning up the heat” one extra degree? Find those opportunities … and seize them!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Recession cooler
Good news !
I successfully took and passed PMP. Thanks to you and to your extremely well taken training sessions. Your course material was helpful to me to pass the exam. There is absolutely no way I could have gained the necessary knowledge and insight needed to pass this very difficult exam without it.
Best Regards,
Renjan Mathew Varughese
Practice Leader - Business Solutions
IMTAC L.L.C
Oman
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Thought for the week !
Friday, March 20, 2009
Tips for the Indian Manager !
4) Beieve in theory 'Y'
Thursday, March 19, 2009
I saw poverty today !
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
feel good factor
I really enjoyed the 3-day training and impressed with your teaching style. At the end of the training I felt that I acquired lot of knowledge (that you shared; espcially your practical experiences both at work and in personal life) from you and gained more confidence.
many thanks,
naag
(nageswarrao m)
Prayer
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Agile project management using scrum - workshop
Agile project management using SCRUM – workshop structure
Day -1
1) Overview - Projects? Nature of Projects.Discusses different types of projects, their characteristics, when to go agile and when not to go agile.
2) Overview - PDCA Vs PDSA (How the conventional project management concepts and the agile methods compliment each other?) .Discusses the synergy between the conventional project management wisdom and agile methods. While the conventional wisdom is valid for planning at a macro level (project, release), agile is the way to go during execution and tracking. Demonstration with an exercise.
3) Let us develop a feature list (scope will be given) and estimate the effort required (work in teams) . Using conventional wisdom, estimate the effort required for the scope given – exercise
4) Overview - SCRUM framework
The SCRUM framework is explained including Agile manifesto, values, scrum principles, product backlog, sprint planning meeting, sprint board, burn down chart, scrum meeting, product demo, lessons learned, work volunteering, product owner roles, scrum master roles, team member roles.
5) Teach product backlog
In-depth discussion on product backlog, feature prioritization risk driven Vs value driven.
Exercise – develop a product backlog
6) Teach agile project planning
In-depth discussion on how to plan at the project level, release level and sprint level.
7) Teach User stories and story points
Exercise – Expand the key features in the product backlog in consideration to user stories.
8) Teach Sprint velocity calculations. Exercise on sprint velocity calculations
9) Teach sprint planning meeting. Exercise on sprint planning meeting
10) Teach daily scrum meeting. Exercise on daily scrum meeting
11) Teach sprint review meeting. Exercise on sprint review meeting
Day – 2
12) Mock project
12.1) Perform sprint planning meeting
12.2) Develop the sprint board and the design board
12.3) Perform daily scrum meetings
12.4) Perform sprint review meetings
13) Experience sharing on ‘Challenges while implementing’
14) Experience sharing on ‘Scaling scrum across multi location teams’
15) Discussion of tools and demo
16) Lets plan your projects ( The participants will bring in their cases), Lets do it the scrum way)
17) Discussion on the implementation strategy
Duration of the program 2 days
Requirements
· Participants will be grouped into teams of 5
· Maintaining the time lines is very important
· Each team will be provided with a white board or a flip chart and yellow post its large and small sizes + marker pens
· Each team will have access to the internet
· Ideal audience size is 15 persons
Profile and contact details of the instructor at www.abrachan.com
Monday, March 16, 2009
Spirituality and Me !
- Obligation to God
- Obligation to Self
- Obligation to Family
- Obligation to Work
- Obligation to Society
This positive life is not going to be a habit overnight. Our daily activities, professional or personal should be governed by these obligations and the best way out is to use the daily planner to plan out tomorrow, today - in writing and then following them, so that there will not be much room for negativity in our daily life. Dont think that miracles will happen overnight. Faith and positve life can be compared to a mustard seed. It has to be nurtured and grown, till it becomes big and strong;
Jesus put before them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.' He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened'.
Have a great positive day, filled with positive actions only !
Music to my ears !
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Congratulations Vipul Gupta PMP
I cleared my pmp today . it all due to the practicle training I received on in Doha in May 2008
Best Regards
Vipul Gupta
Doha qatar
Success of a student is always music to the teacher
I cleared my pmp today . it all due to the practicle training I received on in Doha in May 2008
Best Regards
Vipul Gupta
Doha qatar
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Wish list for blogger.com
1) Give me an offline blogging facility. I should be able to blog when I am not connected to the net, and when I connect, it should automatically synchronize.
2) Give me a image uploading and cropping facility for the header.
3) Give me some more templates. Getting fed up with the same set of templates
4) In one go, want to post the same entry in multiple blogs :-)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Opportunities for PMPs
Experience:
10 - 18 Years
Location: Singapore
Education:
UG - B.Tech/B.E. - Chemical, Production/Industrial
PG - M.Tech - Chemical, Production/Industrial
Industry Type:
Oil and Gas/ Power/Infrastructure/Energy
Functional Area:
Production, Maintenance, Quality
Job Description
Direct oversight of Operations Personnel – including goal setting, coaching throughout the year and year-end reviews using the PMP process.
Direct responsibility for the safe and reliable operation of the facility
Direct responsibility for the commercial optimum operation of the facility
Play a key role in providing technical advice for new projects and for problem resolution of current facility.
Ensure compliance with all environmental and operations permits.
Ensure that the Monthly Report is released on time.
Ensure that the lab obtains the annual surveillance audit for the ISO 17025. Support the audits for ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001 and OSHAS 18001.
To prepare the plant yearly performance report.
To ensure that the existing plant units are re-Hazoped and the Hazop follow-up actions are closed timely.
Responsible for the achievement of the facility targets especially the plant reliability and availability.
Lead in the synergy process.
To ensure that Facility KPI values are achieved.
Desired Candidate Profile
Degree in Chemical or Process Engineering
At least 10 years process-related engineering experience in petrochemical facilities
Previous management experience in operation of Synthesis gas plants
Must be disciplined to work in a demanding work environment.
Must demonstrate a high level of initiative and independent work ethic
Knowledge of the safety, health and environment of petrochemical facilities
Kindly apply through:http://www.bocjobs.com/asia/Click “Job Opportunities” and select the Job ID 850671 (Operations Manager)
Company Profile
The Linde Group is a world-leading industrial gases, medical gases and engineering company with around 55,000 employees working in more than 80 countries worldwide with gases and engineering sales of around 13 billion euro per annum. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services.
Contact Details
Company Name:
Linde Group
Website:
http://www.bocjobs.com/asia/