Business & Personal Growth

Creativity is something people accentuate a lot these days. Creativity has created its own space & importance in this uncertain world. It is all about coming up with fresh ideas and trying out new things to provide a panacea to the potential problems that may arise. Since the culture in which we live & the society around us don’t always encourage us to be creative, it does not come naturally to us & so haven’t thought this as one of the crucial attributes in progressing in our careers. Corporates do emphasize innovation, but it can only take shape once employees extract their creative juices in everything they do. It is about challenging the set ways of working & doing things differently. Creativity should be embedded in our daily lifestyle to keep ourselves excited & enthusiastic from carrying out our mundane tasks. Here are a few ways to kick-start our journey on creativity: Break from a daily routine: People achieving monumental success in their life have one thi...

  The projects which are typically termed as the largest of the lot, involves multiple vendors, partners & client teams. Organizations tend to outsource the non-core elements to third-party vendors in the quest to cutting costs or getting access to specialization. Thus it brings in multiple teams & stakeholders to achieve a certain project outcome. Naturally, managing such projects becomes challenging for the Project Manager as there are several communication lines to manage. Moreover, the greater challenge lies in aligning each team’s interest with the larger interest of the project. While the team’s synchronization can be maintained by having an effective communication plan at its place, the underlying self-interests of the team can become a major blocker in taking key decisions. There could be disagreements in a few project-related aspects like delivery timelines, requirements, communication which impacts projects adversely & one can easily find teams passing the buc...

  Keeping yourself motivated has become an elusive task in recent times, given the kind of negativity we’re surrounded with. Staying motivated is one of the most important factors in aligning yourself & staying on track towards attaining your goals. Motivation and Productivity go hand-in-hand. Only when you’re motivated, you tend to achieve more in a lesser amount of time, thus, achieve your goals faster than many others. For some, people are the real motivation & so staying in groups acts as the biggest source of motivation. However, this can be counteractive when there is pessimism floating around and your group members are not able to maintain high motivation levels. So it is prudent to find your ways to keep yourself motivated to influence external factors rather than it influencing & controlling you. Read the below tips to keep you motivated at all times. Set a goal & keep monitoring: Without goals, you are like a ship setting its sail with no destination. The...

  In this changing IT landscape, Citizen Development plays a vital role in bringing efficiency & productivity to the existing SDLC. It enables us to take the next step of bypassing or keeping lesser dependency on the coding phase in its run-up to building enterprise-level business applications. With having a complete understanding of Citizen Development, teams can create apps using simple interfaces. With not much technical background required they will be able to build systems using any low code or no-code platforms. It facilitates the low-code application development environment and given the shortage of software developers, Citizen Development significantly reduces the burden on the IT departments. According to one of the Forrester Research estimates, there would be a shortfall of 5 lakhs software developers in the US by 2024. Apart from reducing the coding dependency, it can also be a lower-cost option & improve time-to-market, enhancing the overall efficiency of the en...

With the advent of modern technologies like AI & ML, their applications are largely being discussed & predicted in various domains & business functions. AI is a technology that helps in forecasting the future by recognizing the pattern of the humongous amount of available datasets. According to one of the surveys by PMI, it is estimated that 81% of organizations are impacted by AI technologies in one way or the other. Today I would like to outline how AI’s ability to interpret events, unfold future predictions & take automated decisions can largely affect the Project management field, their practices, their laid-down framework, and their tools & softwares. These days, project managers face a lot of challenges while managing complex projects, where there are multi-disciplinary teams to handle along with a number of variables to take care of. Often we’ve experienced projects falling short of either of their boundary parameters: - Schedule, Budget & Quality, thereb...