Category: Management

Productivity : useful and dark corners of Excel

Everybody knows Excel. The world’s leading spreadsheet application. but do we really use it to do just spread-sheets editing or can we do more with it?

Excel could be used to Automate tasks, to analyze data and go beyond just creating reports.

In this article I try to expose some of the functionalities I mostly use in Excel as developer and production support staff at the same time.

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Writing a proposal for management with NABC.

One morning, while you are taking the elevator to get to your office, you meet the CIO, you have 3 minutes time-window where you have the attention of CIO and you need to convince him about an idea you have. What would you say ? In which order you will discuss your ideas and arguments?

We all see that scene in movies where the corporate-fox-hero meets the CEO and 3 minutes later  he gets out of the room with a big smile on his face. They never show what happened in between. Well this article is about Elevated Pitch.

We Developers, always have a hard-time explaining ourselves in an executive sort of way.  One of the biggest mistakes: we start by explaining an approach to a problem only us are aware of.  We always assume that everybody is aware with our everyday work problems and challenges.

Elevated pitch used in engineering commercials, speeches and seminars to capture attention and provoke actions.  Also In today’s sort of hierarchical organizations, could be used in writing internal project proposals or sell  new ideas to management.

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