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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the university’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.  Here is the video and transcript for this address – You’ve got to find what you love.

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Up for a probability challenge?

Today after a long time I came across an interesting probability question. I think there are two ways to solve this problem but don’t know which one is correct. Leave me a comment if you know the right answer. “A couple has two children and at least one of them is a boy. What is the probability that their other child is a boy?” 1) 1/2, it is equally likely that the other child is a boy or a girl.…

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BAM: real-time versus historical

The ability to report business performance metrics is a major differentiator among BPM suites. BPM vendors are rushing to include this type of business activity monitoring (BAM) capability in their suite through acquisitions, partnerships or enhancements of existing tools. On the other hand customers are usually confused about how to best use BAM capabilities. Real-time BAM components are tightly integrated within the BPM solution to monitor metrics for work-in-progress activities. Advanced real-time systems can do such things as record an…

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notes to self – Sunday, January 24, 2010

An Audience With….John Everhard | Theo Priestley— John Everhard of Pega systems thinks many companies stepped-back from software investments in 2008 in the US and took the time to plan significant transformations as preparation for an economic up-turn which has started during 2009. It seems the UK and Europe are 9 – 12 months behind the US cycle and Pega is seeing the results of similar planning exercises in the guise of RFI’s and RFP’s in recent months. Gartner Reveals…

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PC to PCC – Is it Inevitable?

Transition from Personal Computer (PC) to Personal Cloud Computing (PCC)- Is the change on its way?  It’s my opinion that personal computing is destined for the cloud in coming decades inspite of the fact that there is lot of debate surrounding cloud security and privacy. Here are few reasons for this belief Storing information on traditional PCs / notebooks is secure as long as you do not connect them to internet. In this age of collaboration and social networking, we…

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Is traditional Manager a history?

Today, I happened to pull out historical records of the IT program I am managing for last 3 years at my . While doing some data churning, a unique observation stuck my mind – Till date over 62 people from different units of my company have directly or indirectly reported to me in this program in multiple capacities and at various intervals of time. About 70% of this workforce was out of sight as a result of globalization or virtualization…

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Xobni is Inbox – spelled backwards

As a project manager, communications makes up a huge portion of my work and like it or not the bulk of that communications happens through emails. Considering I am spending quantifiable hours every day working with Microsoft Outlook, I was always looking for optimizing my time spent with MS Outlook and about six months back I came across Xobni. Xobni is email add-in for outlook and one of the latest additions in my project management toolkit. This small plug-in has…

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