MICHAEL-

First Love Marriage: Resembles procedural programming language. We have some set functions like flirting, going to movies together, making long conversations on phone and then try to fit all functions to the candidate we like.

It is a throwaway type of prototype as client requirements rises with time thus it is a dynamic system and difficult to maintain.

Family system hangs because hardware (called parents) is not responding.

You are the project leader so u are responsible for implementation and execution of PROJECT- married life.

Client expectations include exciting feature as spouse cooking food, washing clothes etc.

Acceptance test possible you can try before you Buy.

Love Marriage is like Windows, beautiful n seductive…. Yet one never knows when it will crash!

Now for the Arranged Marriage :Similar to object oriented programming approach. We first fix the candidate and then try to implement functions on her. The functions are added to supplement the main program. The functions can be added or deleted.

Requirements are well defined so use of waterfall model is possible

Compatible with hardware (Parents).

You are a team member under project leader (parents) so they are responsible for successful execution of project Married life.

All these features are covered in the SRS as required features.

Product is sold on an as is where is basis. Product once sold will not be taken back!

Arranged Marriage is like Unix… boring n colorless… still extremely reliable and robust.

I have a love affair for the past 11 years and I gonna prove all critics who say NO to LOVE marriage, WRONG!

“Your career is literally your business,” said, Theodore Levitt, author and educator.
These are challenging times … and tough times.
What makes the situation so much more difficult is the way people handle these tough times. Like others, the possibility of downsizing and company lay-offs is REAL.
The key question that each of us should be asking is: “What am I going to do?”
Be careful not to shift responsibility of job preservation or career enhancement on someone else. And that, my fellow agents, is a dangerous position to take. In “Choose Greatness For Your Life Today,” I read, “We must stop (seeking to blame) external people and forces in our lives and begin consciously choosing appropriate responses.”
So I ask you, are you taking responsibility for yourself, your job, and your future? Or are you simply sitting on the sidelines, hoping things work out? A call to action: Take responsibility for making good things happens.
As writer Sara Henderson says, “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel. Stride down there … and light the bloody thing yourself.”
So what are the appropriate responses to these challenging, insecure times? (Here comes the “born” instructor in me…)
1. Focus on your replacement value?
*If you’re ever going to have control over your career, you must have an answer to each question. They are as follows:
a) What am I going to do to increase my value in the market place?
b) What am I going to do to demonstrably increase my value to my current employer? Or to my clients and customers?
c) What am I going to do to increase my value to prospective future employers?
d) What am I going to do to make myself so valuable that I’m the least likely to be cut or the last to be cut?
2. Stop the excuses
* “There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than achievement.” These people will never turn into great success stories.
3. Refuse to settle for “good enough.”
*Focus on 5 things that will make you more valuable to your employer or your customers.

Michael