Of crosswords and crossroads

Methodology... There is order in this world and I will tell you how it is done... These have been my world for some time... Like spaceman Spiff , The world seems much ordered from a distance and then as we go down , no one knows what anyone else wants.. Pity!!!
The world is an imperfect place and it should not be modeled and let to its own machinations.
The corporate world however is filled with attempts at filling pages and pages of documents and calling them methodologies , sad I am also part of this time consuming but wasteful exercise.
Afterall processes and methodologies are defined after a project where project learnings are put together and not before one trying to tell ourselves what we will do.
It is more like planning a road before clearing the path. We will get lost and being guided by moonlight it remains to be seen where we are headed. With leprechauns who vanish and expect pots of gold at the end of the rainbow , lets see if the leprechaun pair help us or in usual fashion take us in circles and help us lose ourselves .....

As the wind blows

The wind may be a breeze or a gale but all we do is bother as to how the windmill is to be turned to make the most of the wind. How I wish it was we knew how the wind would blow and we could turn the windmill in that direction at an earlier stage.

Change is constant but it should not become the only thing other that bringing about a business view. Tectonic shifts happening on a daily basis , feel like stuck permanently in a quake , maybe I could have been a quaker...

Looks like things are getting a wee bit firm and more like the rat running around in the milk till it curdled , if it stopped , it would drown...

Canoodling with IT

Weird term , canoodling... not to be used with IT but seems to force me to do it. Life is like one of a seance.. present to unseen customers and unknown formats....
Boxes and lines it is .. reminds me of a crate loader at the docks.... Even the container terminals know only boxes and lines!!!
Cricket seems a better option , all you need is a tennis elbow and you can still get paid... and the team thinks of the entire event as a picnic on the grass!
IT is a different monster altogether.. it requires a lot of gas.. and gas is what we deliver.. and to top it.. we give documents and be done with it....
As I always say.. lets see what things forbear and bring......

Box my ears

If I had anything to say , I would say it in Multicolored boxes and lines , the meaning of which will be fixed soon. Its been a misery of standards and definitions over the last 4 days and add to that the agony of explaining the business end of things , you have a nighmare.
And to top that the top level view shifts... god save me from this and I do not know what I am getting into.
Helicopter views are nice as long as the helicopter stays in one place!!!!
Then comes the part of explaining things to people who are out of sync and a 4 day job is to be explained over an hour to another person who has no clue on what is being thrown at them , pity them , reminds me of the russians getting butchered in Enemy at the gates... but my aresnal does not include tanks and bombs and my armor is quite weak.
As for sniping lots of opportunities , lets see if vassily zaitsev lives to tell another day.

Arun the corporate guru

Developing a corporate data model isn't easy and in most cases not possible. Corporate is one of the most misused words in company jargon. Corporate must mean corrupt I guess , similarities are endless.
As for work life .. it deserves a slow death and finally culminates in becoming a cubicle rat with the computer in front as the only means of existence.
To add bidding for stuff online was cool but with that being monitored.. who's counting and who let them count?
Things seem to be simmering right now and will explode for sure but whether the explosion can be contained or lets do firefighting after th explosion is what is to be seen, and who is going to set it off is anybody's guess.
Meanwhile doing mundanethings and occupying myself with negligent activities done in the name of developing sales is what my life has become. Wish I has a crystal ball , and a hat of peacock feathers . Crystal ball to see the future , the hat to make me look the part.