"Biceps"
"Keep It Short"
"Eat Spaghetti"
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Credits: Vinny Ganju
Showing posts with label contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contest. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Dress Code - II
Have written an entry on "Dress Code" earlier. You can find that here. Came across another one today from Accenture....
"Biceps"
"Keep It Short"
"Eat Spaghetti"
:-)
Credits: Vinny Ganju
"Biceps"
"Keep It Short"
"Eat Spaghetti"
:-)
Credits: Vinny Ganju
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Nights spent in office making the new 99acres.com live
We had a contest running for us this time..... 2 day trip if we launch the new stuff till the end of july.
We've worked on this project for some time now.... as usual we slogged the most in the last over.
This was a new team i worked with. Have done this twice over @ naukri.com and made several large (read mammoth) projects live in the last 4 years.
We did it.... the team work was cool.
Yet... everytime it's the same butterflies..... the cushion however are the learnings...
There were many challenges for us. getting the concepts right.... implementing them and most of all having a well oiled coordination between all the departments without playing the blame game. [it's very easy to get into that trap :-) ]
It takes all types of people to make a team. A lot of it was Deja Vu ..... it's all coming back to me... just different people were saying it.....
Each one has their own concern.....
- it's not in the brief... where is the dropdown we wanted... it was not in the template.... Stop looking at comma and full stops, pl take out BUGS- REAl Bugs..... the new build destroyed the older fixes....
Top management wants new changes done...
not now, it will be done in august....
The idea so much wasn't a 2 day trip... the motivation was achievement and having the Best Site.....
But the best thing about this team was : The Client/User and Site was at the core of all this and the strain we could hear were "How can we do this better?"... ok let past be past and let's focus on what we need to get done and how best can we do it to make the site better.
There were no sides..... There was just 1 team.
99acres team... U Rock.
there were many a night we spent in office.... not going home... sleeping in office for a few hours... working 21 hours a day....
Our business head - Deepali and CTO - Vivek stood by us always......
We've worked on this project for some time now.... as usual we slogged the most in the last over.
This was a new team i worked with. Have done this twice over @ naukri.com and made several large (read mammoth) projects live in the last 4 years.
We did it.... the team work was cool.
Yet... everytime it's the same butterflies..... the cushion however are the learnings...
There were many challenges for us. getting the concepts right.... implementing them and most of all having a well oiled coordination between all the departments without playing the blame game. [it's very easy to get into that trap :-) ]
It takes all types of people to make a team. A lot of it was Deja Vu ..... it's all coming back to me... just different people were saying it.....
Each one has their own concern.....
- it's not in the brief... where is the dropdown we wanted... it was not in the template.... Stop looking at comma and full stops, pl take out BUGS- REAl Bugs..... the new build destroyed the older fixes....
Top management wants new changes done...
not now, it will be done in august....
The idea so much wasn't a 2 day trip... the motivation was achievement and having the Best Site.....
But the best thing about this team was : The Client/User and Site was at the core of all this and the strain we could hear were "How can we do this better?"... ok let past be past and let's focus on what we need to get done and how best can we do it to make the site better.
There were no sides..... There was just 1 team.
99acres team... U Rock.
there were many a night we spent in office.... not going home... sleeping in office for a few hours... working 21 hours a day....
Our business head - Deepali and CTO - Vivek stood by us always......
Friday, June 1, 2007
Dress Code
Being my first post, maybe this should have been on something else... dunno what though....
Well what got me started was this amazing laminated piece of paper, i saw at someone's desk in office.
It tickled my funny bone like crazy... just couldn't get over it. I just had to share it with everyone.
So there it went as a contest in my "Thought for the day" mailing list. (What is this? it's another story, I'll write about sometime.)
It got me ticking........
The mail that i sent out was.......
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From:Nachiketa (99Acres) [mailto:nachiketa@99acres.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:42 PM
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have been getting lots of reverts.......
so i had to open the contest to others aswell..........
Well what got me started was this amazing laminated piece of paper, i saw at someone's desk in office.
It tickled my funny bone like crazy... just couldn't get over it. I just had to share it with everyone.
So there it went as a contest in my "Thought for the day" mailing list. (What is this? it's another story, I'll write about sometime.)
It got me ticking........
The mail that i sent out was.......
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From:
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:42 PM
Subject: Thought for the day.... A Contest - Dress Code
Hi!
Contest Prize:
1 Hot Chocolate Fudge…
[For those who don’t like chocolate (don’t smirk… I know someone who doesn’t like it…. Ya… I know he’s crazy) they can have their choice of sundae at nirula’s]
* in case of joint prize, panel of judges decide…..
Contest Details:
Have got my hands on the dress code for women of a certain company…..
Factual:
- Guess the name of the company….. *I have proof of which company…. Am not fudging…. Data sahi hai…..
Creative:
- Create a company dress code for men which we can send back to these people…….
Please note that to qualify for the prize you would need to answer both questions…. [ However for fun you can answer 1 if you like….]
have been getting lots of reverts.......
so i had to open the contest to others aswell..........
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Hi!
On popular request the contest is open to all. Even those who are not in my mailing list can send in entries. Please feel free to send this to your friends who can take a joke.
Pl do remember that this is a fun contest and not meant to be mean to other people…. Ok.
And come on women….. where’s the dress code for men?????? How can we let them off the hook so easily…..
Today’s thought: " Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them." - John Shirley
Cheers,
Nachi
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