The Grand Finale

Finally the much awaited end of semester is coming. The course went really fast with the very exciting well planned group project, research paper and weekly discussion conference, mini project and blog, not to forget the weekly news buzzing around.

The best thing I liked about this course is the active interaction and participation of the class keeping all of us up to date of assignment due deadline and helping us to deliver on time and not missing any assignments. Also the topics choosen stimulated in thinking and analyzing usage and application of technology in real life and organization, making the assignment very interesting.

Thanks to Professor Leslie and all my class mates for the wonderful interactive learning experience this semester . Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2007.

Session 15

This week was really hectic with too many course related activities happening. I had to give exam for the other course (Program and Project Management) and complete the assignment for this course. Not to mention, I hadn't enicipated the unplanned happy hour and parties at work place. This made me realize that I need to add more buffer time in my plan for such unexpected last minute plans. All in all, everything went on quite well :)

The discussion for this week was interesting, especially the discussion on delaying IT investments to cut costs. The thread on the critique on Nicholas Carr's article "IT Doesn't matter" was really interesting to read with many of my classmate commenting bluntly.

I just have the final exam to give and that's IT for this semester !!! Yipeeeeeeee !!

Sharing a photo taken by my younger brother Manoranjan Ingudam. I love this flower, reminds me of Home.

Session 14

It was a good read and research on Intellectual Property Protection. From my read up, I would summarize that the law define and protect intellectual property by patent, copyright and trademark.

The read up on teleworking is really interesting. Given a choice, I still want to go for work in a workplace though don't mind teleworking for couple of days in a month (thinking of the traffic I get stuck in I-495 practically everyday :) I like the face to face interaction and discussion and don't want to miss it.

Mini Project on website impacting society was a good one. I did survey many website but finally decided on heath care.

I am trying to complete all my pending assignment much ahead of due date, so that I can concentrate in my pending research paper and exam preparation. It is really nice that these conferences are open.

Session 13

I had to share this cute picture, it's so cute, brought a smile on my face when I saw this and am sure you will too.Thanks to my friend (whose name is also Monica) for sharing this picture :)

It was really interesting to read about "Offshore Outsourcing". India seems to be the most popular outsourced location from many of the articles I have read. It was interesting to know that customer dissatisfaction is a main problem in case of outsourcing for call centre.

"The techs I had the privilege of dealing with were unintelligible due to heavy East Indian accents compounded by speaking much too quickly for me to understand," says one unhappy Dell customer who posted complaints on PlanetFeedback.com

Discussion thread on following standards for implementing computing technologies is really interesting. I am all for following standards. Following Standards helps in inteoperability of various products.

Coming up with the Job description of CIO using WIKIS (http://csmn601fall06.wikispaces.com/CIO+Job+Vacancy+Announcement) was great. Ummmm waiting to be in a position to hire a CIO for my future company :)

It's friday, and I have completed all my assignment due :) This will give me time to focus on my Bluetooth Research.

Session 12

Yipee !!! I am so happy, only 3 more session to go to complete this course :)

The most interesting topic for this session is the Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), I had to read it 2 times to understand and go through the whole thread of discussion & DFD submitted. I had to get it right as I was submitting on the last day and I had seen many rejection from Prof. Leslie.

I liked the read up and discussion on alternatives od SDLC. I have seen that Managers are so focus on following SDLC for some projects where alternatives can be used and the alternative will be more effective and efficient. It is good to see the conclusion write up by Prof. Leslie that it depends on the type of project to follow SDLC.

Group project is almost done, looking out for an appropriate diagram but haven't got anything as yet. Need to focus on Research paper. FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS !!! Getting a bit drifted with holiday plans & sales going around.

PS: Photo coming soon :)

Session 11

I had completed session 11 long back but forgot to blog about it :) Sharing a beautiful flower photograph taken by my brother, looks like a painting.

It was interesting to read the disussion thread on competitive advantages on using IT and improving organization. I had to break my head on coming up with the mini project, in search of a novel enterprise.

Secret to Success and Dot com failure were good reading too.

Group Project going on full swing :) Looking forward for the end presentation.

Session 10

View of Loktak Lake in Manipur

Yipeeee !! Managed to clear many of my pending task. But I need to keep my focus for this week and complete all pending task. Overall a very good productive week.

Data Mining, data warehouse and GPS topic technology discussion thread was really interesting. Presentation for Group Project too is coming up pretty well with everyone's input. Chatting with Alice , the robot was a funny experience. I really thought her to be dumb , though appreciate the concept. Maybe these concept can be used as online chat help for online e-commerce business with FAQ programmed.

Looking forward to complete all pending task for next week :) rather this week.