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Utilizing WFH Efficiently

Being a mom of 2 young kids and a full time working professional, proper time management is highly imperative for me to utilize the WFH duration during COVID efficiently. This WFH is not a normal one, now the kids too are schooling from home. Optimistically, this is the right time for any self improvement if planned and utilized in the correct way. Few tips for better time management and best utilization of COVID WFH: In the work front:     * Start the official hours as BAU or little earlier if at all young toddler's online class has to be accompanied during official hours.    * Take the usual short breaks, socialize with people around.    * Avoid Social Media to during working hours as like in office. There are enough distractions while WFH, nothing additional in form of social media to bring down productivity.    * Respect and Value the time of fellow team members, invite only the needed for the meetings, have short meetings.    *  Stay motivated and do the best to motivate the t
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Wandering to write..

Its been a long while since I wrote. Two kids along with work schedule occupied my time. Last time I wrote was when my younger one showed the signs to sprang up. She is 5 now! Now in the mid of COVID lock down my thoughts are wandering on what to write. A lot - on being a happy mother, on technology, on project management, WFH, on my hobby - art.. aha, that's a big list!
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Being a Working MOM

"A Woman Can't Have It All!" - Indira Nooyi said that in an interview. Working mom is the one who understands the inside story of it. Having a full time professional career and bring up kids altogether is not an easy task, but definitely not an impossible one. As like any man, a woman too starts her career with tons of passion, ambition and pride. She too marches in par with (might be ahead of) her male colleagues in each step until the stagnation point of balancing between life and work hits. There are quite of lot of women who have given up their career to bring up their kids. Percentage of women at executive levels in any corporate/institution is merger in comparison with that in the entry level. On the professional front she struggles to give up and leave behind the dreams, ambitions and passion which she lived upon once. On the personal side, she is not ready to compromise on cooking he kid's favourite or spending quality time with the kid in the mid of hect
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OCMJEA - Resources

I just started out my plans and preparations for OCMJEA - Oracle Certified Master Java Enterprise Architect. As I go through it, I'm planning to keep this blog updated with what I read and learn on a periodic basis - minimum of 2 posts per week. This first one is on the resources available all around: Blogs and sites:      Specific to Notes/study guide:       http://java.boot.by/scea5-guide/       http://fernandofranzini.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/my-tips-on-ocmjea/       http://rieck.dyndns.org/architecture/scea5.html?_sm_au_=iVVZ2ZJ0qkrr1R6Q       https://sadakurapati.wordpress.com/tag/ocmjea/         http://www.java-forums.org/ocmjea/       www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/tutorials/j-scea/index.html       http://www.coderanch.com/t/149662/java-Architect-SCEA/certification/SCEA-Part-Study-Notes       https://www.scribd.com/doc/25297376/J2EE-5-Architect-Exam-Study-Guide       http://www.coderanch.com/t/659890/Wiki/Scea-Online-Resources          More Info:      
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Software Estimation

Being worn-out with just project estimation and re-estimation alone for the past few months, why not write some thing about software estimation though its not a small topic for me write few lines and finish off. So, here goes a very small snap-shot... As like the saying, 'Don't fail to plan unless you plan to fail', a crystal clear planning is the basic necessity for successful execution of a project and estimation forms of the one important basics of the plan. By Software estimation what we estimate on:         1) Effort : Estimation of amount of work to be done. Eg: Number of Function Points involved or LOC to be developed.         2) Time & Cost : Time needed to get the work done. Usually expressed in work-months/man-months/Person-weeks.         3) Resource : Involves estimation of hardware (Well we can't develop a cloud management system with just 2 Desktop terminals!), software (Need to pay for MS products!), human resource (most important part: rightly skilled
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Back!

Can't stop again! Renewing my blogging habit after a long time, its been a long interval this time. Can't imagine how I missed blogging while there were a lots happening around... Oracle Acquisition of SUN, Booming of Social Networks, UPA's second term, Introduction of CSAT, SCAM filled CWG.... in the personal front: moving back to Chennai, its unbearable climate ... a lot more. But now, I pledge to continue non-stop over the hurdles.
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It's cloudy everywhere

Cloud Computing !!! Cloud Computing !!! Cloud Computing!!!! - Its Cloud everywhere. So, whats that? Something like grid computing? Is it providing Hardware as a Service along with SaaS ? Some interesting short videos which explains this, really interesting:
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