Hello Everyone,
I was wondering how some applications for SIPs can make you think deep. One such application had the below questionnaire which took back me to some of my good old days. I would like to share this with you all so that it gives a glimpse of some of my most treasurable experiences and situations.
1. What has been the most significant project/initiative/assignment that you have worked on? What was the context, what was your specific individual contribution, and what has been the outcome?
My most significant assignment so far would be turning around the success of the deployment of a new application in my team at Infosys. When I joined, the entire team was struggling as two of the leads resigned in onsite and we were failing to hit the goals. I was tasked to pick up MDM and Java within a short span and also to coordinate with the clients in the absence of my leads.
I had to strategically fill the
knowledge gap, keep up the commitments, and ensure on-time delivery as the
offshore development lead. I decided to use the discussion forum in our company
to connect with the leads from different projects and gather inputs. I
organized weekly meetings to understand the business and the bottlenecks across
projects. This not only helped me to fill up the knowledge gap but also showed
me ways to generate new use cases in my project.
Keeping up the commitments with clients
was one of the bottlenecks as were running short of resources. I was able to
achieve a considerable reduction in manual hours by automating the functionalities
like data refresh and data validation that had a direct impact on the client
business.
Within 2 months we were achieving 20 to 25% above our goals and we deployed the application 3 weeks before the deadline. I was awarded the most valuable player award and 2 Insta awards from my performance in 3 consecutive quarters.
2. What is the biggest challenge that you have faced in your life? How has it shaped you as an individual?
An incident that bought a significant impact on me was when I captained my cultural team in Infosys. At that time of the year, Kerala was invariably affected by floods and the company decided to help the victims. Being the captain of one of the teams I was assigned to gather resources and fulfill the basic needs of people around Alleppey. The three things on focus were the fund, resources, and the support team.
The Fund was considerably fulfilled as I had the reserve capital for the cultural fest
and by the humungous support from our team. I formed a 15 member core team to
run behind the shop owners, truck drivers, and also various teams in Infosys to
get approvals. I used my people network for packing the essentials.
We
helped each other throughout day and night for 2 days from packing and loading
the trucks. We did many activities that would keep us motivated and energetic. This
incident had a major impact on me as the sense of relief and happiness that it
gave when our resources reached the needful was overwhelming. It also thought
me that you can always feel powerful when you're surrounded by the right set of
people.
The quality of life, I had felt
sometimes that I am living a monotonous life and there are no things to keep
myself engaged apart from work when I am at home. This mindset is now
completely changed and I have a lot of things to do from cooking to cleaning and
it keeps me more lively than social media. Balancing work and life was always a
tedious task but now I feel I am good at it as everything that I do is
scheduled.
The other impact was on my style of
living. I could never resist myself from eating junk foods. I thought I could
never control my mind and senses. But now when I look back, I have developed a
strong control over my senses which I could prolong life long.
Regards,
VB
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