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Time management

Filed under: fROM tHe GreeNfiElds — cafm @ 9:51 pm April 19, 2007

More on project management/Time management , I have started using this excellent site called www.voo2do.com

Along with the Cool name :P the site proved a great free service thats not great just cuz its free :P….

Will write about how it goes it time I guess…. 

How Accenture One-Upped Bangalore

Filed under: RaNTs@eARTH, fROM tHe GreeNfiElds — cafm @ 9:39 pm

www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_17/b4031098.htm

I guess this is what they mean by domain experience. One thing that this reinforces is that IT has always been and will always be an enabler. You need strong domain knowledge. A new firm can’t just walk right into the pharmacy business or banking business and start writing code from day 1. Either the start up needs to have some one, say a retired bank official, in its staff to bring the domain knowledge or needs to be heavily guided by the client company, t he latter making very less business sense for the client when there are other players out there with the knowledge unless there is a significant cost advantage!!!, strategic alliance or something?

The Accenture business model, as I understand after reading this, seems to be the way to go, but how viable would it be for a start up is questionable especially since these domain experts are bound to cost more than the average coder.

But the fact that they have PhD’s from the pharmacy domain working with them truly helps me look at the outsourcing outside of the narrow IT mindset that I have.

ad hominem argument

Filed under: RaNTs@eARTH, unEarthly tERms — cafm @ 5:33 pm

An informal fallacy in which one arguer uses a logically irrelevant "attack" on another arguer as a reason to disregard the second arguer’s argument. It is a fallacy of relevance. there are three types, Abusive, circumstantial and tu quoque.

Something that has been done to me plenty of times and unknowingly done many times too :P

Added this logic book to my todo….let me see when this happens :P

From http://www.uky.edu/~rosdatte/phi120/lesson7a.htm



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