Sunday, October 26, 2014

Why some days are so unproductive?


I wonder some days when they are about to end.. That which task I have completed today? Oh no I get that bad feeling of not doing anything productive some days.

I am not a social networking sticky type of guys who keeps on doing FB or something whole day.
Even their are some days which I spend by reading articles and just kind of exploring new stuffs. This too makes me feels that I lived today in an unstructured way and thus I can't tell that towards which path I walked today.

These days are really unproductive and makes me feel that I haven't achieved anything today. Wait! I think this because may be I wasn't stick to the path towards my goal and through out my day I wasn't focused on what was my today's goal or you may say that I haven't made any short term goal today in the beginning of my day this made me not to stick to what I would have planned to do today.

So first thing first, every morning when we reach our office give 30 minutes, complete 30 minutes to plan that what you are going to do today so that it may really help to approach towards the goal which you have ahead, it may be any project delivery or completion of any module kind of stuff.

Now, how to plan out stuffs which you are going to do today. Take a paper (as I do) and start writing what you have to do today w.r.t what you did yesterday and how today's work will values to it. Before doing all this, make the diagram of the entire goal and break it down into tasks. These tasks can further be broken down to sub-tasks and arranged in order and dependencies. Thus, after arranging them, one can plot it on time-line and hence each day gets its own small goals (sub-tasks).



In this way one can find himself/herself to be productive each day and summing up each day will make him/her productive in that project or long run.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Breaking of Idea + Vision - ewaystores.in

Last night while I was on the way to my dreams, I just opened up a news app and found something which pierced me through, It was the concept of displaying the searched products in the near by local stores, Ohhh my god, I felt like ruined :(

The reason behind this was me too thought about this idea and have developed a website on it. Never worked on it further. Oh my god I still haven't done anything yet.

Instead of writing any line of code I should have done a market research and then planned accordingly what to do. It has been months nearly 10 months I have developed the website and a slight back-end but never went further from it. I keep on thinking that this idea is nice and really a needy one but then I get scared that this is not a very valuable idea. Oh my god I think so much. i need to cut out some of my thinking process and start doing.

I think I should go with http://ewaystores.in/

I need to do some market research and plot what I have to do. This time I wont think that what further can be done instead focus on this moment and small idea. Simple. Write it down Vikrant. I think of slapping myself for keep on thinking and not doing anything.

I lack the marketing and sales skills, I fear of presenting this idea in-front of a bigger platform. I am too much of introvert.

I have to cut out these issues and work on a very basic idea. Stop thinking. Start doing.

Developing the product - who rule over the decisions

In product development, there are scenarios as co-workers from different field work together and try to create a unique piece of product which is being expected to go into the market and takeover it.

The co-workers are from financial, economical, technical (developers or designers) etc backgrounds. The real thing arises if there is a guy who pretend to be like a manager. Now what happens that when ever the product gets ready then the look and feel of the product will be as per the person who exhibits himself like a manager as he will see from him frame of reference and wont look from any other point of vision.

What if the designer has has designed a new master piece and he/she likes it, along with him others too like it but manager is not so much comfortable with it. Hence the things are going to be changed as per his/her views.

So, this is the real problem in the product based office. As the manager is the guy who pays the salary for all the other guys hence no one would dare to oppose his/her decision. Now, when this is the real problem standing up in front of a product development life-cycle which may lead to a poor quality product, so what can be the possible solution ?

Thought on MBA from outside India

I was thinking to do MBA few weeks back to gain up skills like talking to people and presenting ideas and gathering showcase kind of qualities.

Here I am with two MBA guys working at their company and figuring out how they are running their business. The main part is the contact which you make, one of a person with whom I discussed (Anubhav da) that whether I should do MBA or not? He asked me one simple question, you need it or you want it? Ouch that makes a lot of things clear.

Though Soura da and Avik Sir had appreciated me for being very organized at work. I found myself that yes I am structured some how. Few things which I scare off is the time spent to plan somethings as those plannings are never executed well and hence I keep on planning and planning. Things are never executed, this makes me feel sad.

Now what I can figure it out that MBA helps you to reach to the amount of contacts which you can have while pursuing it. It is more helpful when you do it from outside India, you get to have international contacts. Along with it when you return back to India people start to think that, ohh he has done MBA from outside India that too heavy and thus pay more attention to you, in this way you can get more connection. Even if you start a business then any one would think once for sure to do a business with you. This is kind of very helpful to you.

Along with all the above benefits you get to know how to present, anything, like a documentation, how it should be, a presentation or even yourself.

These two: connection and presentation are the two vital stuffs which you get to learn if you do MBA from outside India.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

1st week at newly formed company

Okay last week I joined a newly formed company formed by Soura da. Yah I know its a huge pressure though I accept the challenges.

In one week out of new things I learned Webservices, Tomcat7 and Mysql setup in Digital ocean ubuntu server. Then came to GWT framework application and Jboss server. Oh my my I went through so many stuff and still on.

Today is 2nd Monday and here is what I have to do is make a DFD and Use Case diagram for the application which I will be building. Including mentioning the delivery date of it. Wow, I have been maintaining the task list and hence now I have to go a bit further and look into the Target list and connect to Task list to achieve the goals on time.

There is so many things to do. woww Its pressure but I like it. I don't know why I have taken this risk of working in a very unstable environment and a lot of responsibilities lies upon the way I work and how I work i.e. the business is going to be effected directly by my work. If I do good it will yield good and if I fail it will drop is some extent.

My God, this is what I am into but don't know why I choose this way. Let's see where I lead to after few months and what I become.

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