Isn’t it difficult to tackle certain situations when one wrong step can change the entire consequences? Yes, some situations make us dumbfound, and paralyze our decision-making capabilities whether that has a positive or negative impact on our project’s life. So, don’t you think that it is better to have some tools and techniques to deal with such threats and opportunities?Irrespective of the project’s duration and intricacy, risks are always there and in the case of long-term complex projects, the level of risks increases manifolds. So, to minimize the negative impact on our projects, we should have a concrete plan with ... Read More

Last week, while discussing with my colleagues on various topics, the discussions took an unexpected turn and reached to one of the trending topic called ‘Employee Attrition’. Frankly saying it was not unexpected, actually for the last couple of months we have been seeing many ‘good-bye’ or ‘keep in touch’ kind of parting emails almost twice or thrice in a week. Everybody is discussing on it, whether it is during lunch time or coffee breaks, the gossip and rumors are in the air!These type of discussions are not only restricted to one company. Actually, you can see such trends in ... Read More

We never think about the complexities involved in the basic things we use daily. However the luxuries we enjoy are just because of the advancement in technologies, and it’s a beautiful thought to try and understand how to use these everyday tech apps to improve your career goals and plans.Adopting and learning new technologies is no more limited to techies, as it has today become a basic necessity for individuals in each and every field. Beginners also realize now that they need to learn and practice new concepts so that they can prove their worth to the recruiting world.Sometimes a ... Read More

There is a process involved in learning a language. And if it is a foreign language, then the learning process brings its own idiosyncrasies and difficult territories to tread with it. Wish we had some kind of language equipment that could help us learn a language. This would hide a great deal of gear-churning and behind-the-scenes fussing. The other down-side is that we cannot learn a language in the fourth gear. Technology has intruded our lives while offering untold comforts to us. It has still not invented a language learn equipment. Till it invents something for us we got to ... Read More

TOEFL stands for Test of English as Foreign Language. It is to measure the English language ability of non-native speakers who wish to study in American universities. The easiest way to register for the TOEFL exam is by logging on the official website where all steps are properly explained and students can take the test as per the schedule provided on the website.Format of TOEFLThis is offered in two formats, paper-based test and internet based which is more predominantly used. It is a 4-hour test with a 10-minute break and consists of four sections. Namely, Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing.The ... Read More

A test strategy document is a test outline document that explains the testing approach of the software development cycle. It is created by the test managers to inform clients, project managers, testers, and developers about some key issues and decisions of the testing process. This includes the testing objective, methods of testing new functions, total time and resources required for the project, and the testing environment. It is a strategy plan for defining testing approach, what you want to accomplish and how you are going to achieve it.It helps in evading all unclear and uncertain requirements and creating a basic ... Read More

A common nightmare for the project managers across the industries is to keep the schedule on track. But most often, for various reasons the schedule goes hay-way. It can be an unrealistic schedule planning which often happens in today’s competitive market, or due to any unforeseen incidents or in-case of any force majeure. For instance, if project schedules gets out of hand, the managers for the respective projects will have to run pillar to post to bring the project on track. But, that is not the same case always, it is also observed that sometimes due to the client or ... Read More

When everything goes well, nobody cares about the project’s resources, they become a dime a dozen. And smart project managers always keep their resource plan with them for any unwanted situation. But, the problem comes when the project is hitting the deadlines and some of your activities are far away from completion and you are not able to achieve the target with the planned, committed and available resources. Then these Project Managers caught between two stools, either the deadline will be missed, or include additional resources whoever is available to complete the work in allotted time.But the biggest problem here ... Read More

Let’s discuss a scenario, you bought a piece of land in the outskirts of the city. It is a calm and quite place, surroundings with green lush nature. A pleasant escape from the busy and noisy city life. You love to build a house there to stay forever.So, as planned, you have started to build your house, and hired the Laborer, Masons, Carpenters etc., and also purchased the raw materials. Fixed a specific time period to complete the work.Coming to the most important part is the budget. For that, you take expert opinions from your friends and neighbors, who had ... Read More

It is quite common these days, to have the work outsourced to a third party vendor. Ask me why? Yes, one of the simple reason is that you won’t find the right talent all the time when you look at your internal staff – in the case of services. However, if your organization intends to buy products, then there is always the concept of make vs buy study which needs to be performed to get the cost effective benefit to the firm.Procuring the products or services is an art by itself. It takes a lot of analysis, research to finalize ... Read More