29th March 2006

Improving Software Development Productivity

This Amazon short is about improving the software development productivity. It contains techniques and methods to improve software development productivity. These techniques, if applied properly, could improve the efficiency of software professionals, software development teams and software organizations.

I have my M.Tech and B.Tech degrees in Industrial Engineering. I had worked as an Industrial Engineer for 2 years before becoming a software professional. After about 10 years in software development and after managing my share of projects, I found that many of the IE techniques could be successfully used in software development. One of main functions of an Industrial Engineer is productivity improvement. In this article, I have adopted some of the IE techniques and principles of productivity improvement and applied it to the software development activities.

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22nd March 2006

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed Got Wild And Got A Life


How Opal Mehta Got Kissed Got Wild And Got A Life is a really hilarious, witty, fast-paced, well-written yet thought provoking maiden novel by 18 year old Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan.

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