• Bio Informatics.
• C, C++, Fortran, Perl, Makefiles, LDAP, Linux, Solaris, Irix, Tru64, Aix.
• Managing product development.
• Building a team of great Software Developers.

In short, this and this!

Now, it is time for something else. From nanotechnology, I've decided to move on to business technology :-) That will be managing product development on B2B with J2EE and RCP/SWT.

All process changes, to be successful, need to follow a simple pattern of Observe, Analyse and Adjust. Here is an outline from a presentation I'm willing to share. If you've comments, please do post them.

Question: how much more cost-effective would it be to just fix your processes first?

I'm not going to argue on how 10 people in US are capable of delivering the work of 70 people in India. Last time I checked, programming skills were not proportional to race, nationality, religion or gender.

Last month, NYSE announced that the he would receive a lump sum of $139.5 million in deferred compensation, mostly covering the past eight years, as part of a deal to extend his contract.

"The hallmark of a dysfunctional organization is a gap between reality and rhetoric," says Ben Dattner, a New York organizational psychologist. When resources are not used effectively or fairly, when plans are heavy on talk but weak on action or when barriers to communication cripple performance, you're dealing with a dysfunctional company.

I am officially dead due to PowerPoint. My demise happened recently when I finally saw one PowerPoint presentation too many. Everything went predictably. The presenter—a high-flying consultant—arrived in his predictable business suit holding his predictable laptop wearing a predictable look of self-importance. He then went through a predictable hour clicking on frame after predictable frame of impressive-sounding statistics while predictably repeating everything you could anyway see on the screen.

Many industry reports give you information about what to look for, when planning to outsource. Most of these reports I've seen evaluate different outsourcing vendors. However, each organization needs to do a candid self-evaluation first, before evaluating vendors.

It is a truly amazing rags-to-riches story. The hero, Sunil Aggarwal is indeed inspiring, but that is what resourceful people are capable of.

What caught my attention was the quote from the business owners who decided to empower and invest in Mr. Aggarwal, to turn the company around.

]]> work 2003-04-09T06:45:10+05:00 http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2003/04/07/spacecraft_design.html "Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is, at best, only an opinion." 753@http://vsbabu.org/mt/ Akin's laws of spacecraft design (Google cache, another copy), by David Akin, a professor at the University of Maryland is a remarkable collection collected over the years Mr. Akin worked in the field of Spacecraft Design. These are all very good laws, most of which are applicable to many different professions.