Deliverable day - SHAH SAW !

Occasion: Deliverable day - Here is a cherishable n memorable moment during the Hitachi Project “Enhancement of JP1/Base Remote Command”.

We had deliverables after deliverables…. Rating its troublesome from small to big: they were

Hectic;
 Very Hectic;
  Really very Hectic;
   Extremely Hectic;
    Terrifically Hectic;
     and so on..

[ I am not exaggerating the scene….
Remote commandos have undergone such hectic-ness!!! So, stop that crazy looks n proceed reading! ]

That was 1 tremendously hectic deliverable.
People were working hard to make it a HIT.

Now…. Itz ur part to Run ur imaginary horse @ 180kmph…….
Bring picture to mind..

We were in D-EXT wing, TC1 , LnTInfotech, Chennai :

Sreenidish n Satish pre-building……. [Making pre-buliding arrangements]
Thalai monitoring…….
Others Testing………..
Kavitha spl testing…. [Meaning, she tests her own fix]
Jcocmdexe throwing…….. [Throwing exception]
Jcocmdrouter fixing………. [Still fixing bugs, underground manipulations]
Jcocmdapi freaking….
Jcocmdcom breathe taking….. [coz itz functionalities never tested @ d end !]
n finally, Shah checking (in) ….. [Log related files were chked in ]

[Note: Sreenidish, Satish, Kavitha, Shah - Remote commandos
Jcocmdexe, Jcocmdrouter, Jcocmdcom, Jcocmdapi – Modules in Remote command project
Thalai is a slang in Tamil, which means Leader/Head]

Everything went on smooth… Deliverable was over n every1 left Esp…. shah left …… except PM n PLs..
Do u Know why they stayed?

More than 15 log files weren’t checked in… they were done after the deliverable…. That check in was done by our gr8 PM … so we had 1 more deliverable after the wrong version …
[Note: NO Team member was aware of it]

Now the comedy track comes …..

Next day, Shah comes to Office…
Satish, as always, was extracting the sent deliverable folder for the 1001th time for ensuring if it is getting extracted or not
Shah slowly walks to sathish and asks him…

Here goes the Shah n Sappi conversation …..

Shah: “Dei machi… I wanna verify if I have checked in some log files da”
[He means the missed out 15 files]
Sathish: Yup…. [Fasting his hands to open log folder under SI path …]
Shah: “Appada…. Irruka da… “ [ means…. I am Safe that they are present]
[He thinks he had checked in those files last night]
Sathish: [giving a wide smile]
[NOTE: Machi – is a Tamil slang among Guys, which denotes closeness]

Sathish continues to Extract the deliverables for the 1002nd time ..... he he he

sappi..... Crazy man !

[Sappi is Sathish' nick name]

Shah departs happily from Sathish’s place

Fine…. Now our Lion (PM) enters…….
Lion: Shah please come… letz have a discussion
Addressing PL …. Why can’t u join the discussion?
[shah Confused….]
Shah: [micturatingly] yes!

Thalai, PL, our shah went into the D-Ext Wing discussion room

Door was tight shut for more than 0.5 hrs
However, it started oscillating / swinging slightly for the next 1 hr

Itz all over………… “ Om…… Shanthi……. Shanthi……. Shanthi……. hee”
[Shanthi in sanskrit means 'peace' ]

PM, PL came out….. Followed by SHAH

Shah came out n was already excreting his perspiration through the pores in the skin ……… Gotcha?
Hey I mean ………… Sweating terribly ………….

By that time…. Ppl outside knew wht had happened last night…..

Few of his frnds went to him:

SHAH SAW …….. Other frnds also saw ….

Frnds : Why blood ?
Same Blood!!!

[This is a famous dialogue in a famous Tamil movie, If not aware of it…. Juz smile n forget it!!! However understand that the narration ended with an apt dialogue]

Big smiles for Shah! :))))

The lofty Remote commandos !

There always existed a liveliness in the project 'Remote Command' and that is due the Perseverance and the Persistent determination of the remote commandos. The more tougher it grows, the more sturdier we become. Visualizing such robustness will trigger tumors in every ones vertebral spine !

[ 'Enhancement of JP1/Base-Remote command' is a huge project executed in Hitachi offshore Developement centre, LnTInfotech,Chennai. It had won the Best Project n Team award for the Year 2005. I wrote this article for the LnT magzine highlighting d efforts behind the award.]

In d realm of software, many ppl hve visions of makin their project No. 1. Nothing really wrong with that vision. But surprise! There's something more potent than a VISION. It's a CAUSE. However, remote commandos work for the cause. As we all know,
" A vision involves sacrifice. A cause involves the ultimate sacrifice."

We have always been told to work hard. But there's something better than merely working hard. It's working SMART. It's taking time to understand the situation, and coming out with an effective and efficient solution to get more done with less time and effort. As the Japanese say, "There's always a better way." but our commandos hunt for the best way possible.

To my "remote command" :
Whenever.... wherever....
we got to meet together...
I will be there and U will be near....
And thatz the deal my dear...

Remote command is Chaturbhuj (four-handed) because of 2 gr8 reasons

* GR8 Reason #1:
The chaturbhujs are Jcocmdrouter, Jcocmdapi, Jcocmdcom and the last but not least Jcocmdexe
* GR8 Reason #2:
The chaturbhujs are our 4 PLs and our PM is the invisible thread who binds everything.

The omnipresent thing through out our code and among all team members is nothing but THE QUALITY.
" Quality is a way of Life and we live it. "
[ To prove this, it was certified as 'Zero Defect Project' in both quality probe phase and System testing phase done by Hitachi ]

We churned and stirred up so many novels in implementing our Quality. The novelty, we were trying to churn out, is imbibed in every step we proceeded on, say it the Design, say it the Review... say it evertyhing

Each one proved their uniqueness in whatever work they were assigned. As we were taught a mantra " Embrace your uniqueness.Time is much too short to be living someone else's life. "However, uniquely we behave, at the dusk, we summarize and make it a TEAM.

" Shalala laShala lala la in the morning
Shala lala la in the evening
Shala lala la in sunshine
Shala lala la... shala la.... just for U My heart goes Shalala la...
"Never mistake "shala lala la" for mere fun...

The twilights were never a Sundown for us, it seemed us like a dawn and a new daybreak. We work from dawn to dusk and again from dusk to dawn coz we are bestowed with power, the power,
The real Horsepower!!

Never ask how much watts? Caution: Danger! Stay away... High voltage...

The way the remote command Knights think are unpredictable. Our Knights work faster and swifter in the nights than in daylights.

'We're all living in the gutter . . . But some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wilde

This above proverb is made false; everybody made a dynamic turning point in this mela.Each Equus never tries to compete with the other. The Equus will definitely makes the other one look at the star if it is not.

"Knowledge without sharing is like limbs without power of locomotion."
The mobility of one's knowledge is faster than the light among us. May be little exaggerating. But we deserve such exaggerations.

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."- Albert Einstein

Our Remote Commandos have exactly done the same and achieved the goal successfully. Finally, in a sentence, The Remote command, It is the greatest manifestation of power and effort

I , on behalf of remote commandos, proudly say sayonara