Category: work
20 years ahead
As a young trainee, my father felt frustrated in companies that awarded roles based on age, not achievement. He looked at his bosses, 20 years ahead of him in line, and concluded that he didn’t want to spend his life becoming them.
How to Handle Many Simultaneous Projects
How can you perform optimization on the organizational level?
- Perform the sprint planning meetings on the same day for all projects (Mondays, in our case).
- Let all projects adapt to the same sprint length (weekly, in our case).
- Collect up-to-date project performance stats every week for the organizational resource planning.
on working style
In case u have to work and you dont bother about the technology, are flexible to handle the changes then Infy is best for you.
Some positives are flexible work env, clear and well defined policies and strong management.
on becoming too valuable
Many years ago, I was working as a “senior member of the technical staff.” I was a tester, had coordinated beta tests, much of the testing work for the last couple of releases, and was working as the tester-project-manager and helping the project manager realize what her job was. My boss left the company. I was “obviously” the next one in line for his job. I didn’t get the job. When I asked why not, I was told “You’re too valuable where you are.”