Entrepreneurship and Consulting

  • Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico

    I’m a fan of detective stories and recently I have been watching a lot of Sherlock Holmes. There is a recurring plot line that happens at various instances, where Sherlock would give amazing insight about a person just by looking at the person for a minute. On one such instance, Sherlock explains how he came

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  • You Are, What YOU Are

    Dear Rahul, Note: If you think that you don’t fit into the description of the “YOU” that follows, ignore this letter. It’s not meant for you! When you have chosen to ignore it based on this decision, please reconsider for once on my request. You are not what your school is. You are not what

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  • Note: Before you read any further, let me warn you that you might not be comfortable reading this, esp if you are from context driven school. Have a glass of water, if it helps. This post is not to undermine the contributions of the context driven community. I owe a lot to their wonderful work

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  • Are you a brand?

    brand: A brand is a product, service, or concept that is publicly distinguished from other products, services, or concepts so that it can be easily communicated and usually marketed. (Source: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211703,00.html ) “Are others able to positively distinguish me from other testers?” – I try to answer this question everyday and in whatever I do as a tester.

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  • Questions are an essential part of a tester’s job. I have had a recent experience which had a bitter part and a better part. I learnt from both of them. I learnt how important it is to ask the right questions. I realised how important it is to plan before asking questions. I had opted

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  • You will hear people talking about Center of Excellence (COE) in net domain (If you haven’t heard of it, better do your homework, because this is to discuss something beyond COE). This discussion is not to discard the concept of COE. I am strongly in favor of building domain-specific COEs in the organization, so that

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  • Recently, I attended a Seminar on Software Testing by Mr. Srinivasan Desikan , at Hyderabad. He is working as Director for Agile Software Corporation, and is the author of the best-seller “Software testing – Principles and Practices”. He has a great way of teaching testing principles – he teaches them with stories, one for each

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