Vijay Vijayasankar
General Manager of AI,Analytics,IOT and Watson Health for North America in IBM GBS . Proud Alum of University of Kerala . Geek, Engineer , Blogger and dog lover . Previously senior executive at SAP and MongoDB.
Three ways to NOT to handle war time pressure in business
Pressure is a fact of life – especially so in businesses. You cannot eliminate it, but you can probably minimize it with good preparation and training and so on. But whatever you do – you are bound to end up in high pressure situations from time to time. It could be your boss promising more […]
Blocking and Tackling
“Football is two things. It’s blocking and tackling. I don’t care about formations or new offenses or tricks on defense. You block and tackle better than the team you’re playing, you win.” – Vince Lombardi Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Just like in football, there is a perception that blocking and tackling has no glamor and it is beneath us […]
Who killed Hadoop ?
On a recent flight from PHX to JFK, I had a chance to read this excellent blog by Arun Murthy . If you have not read it yet – pls read it first before you read my rant below. As always – these are strictly my personal views . Photo by RENATO CONTI on Pexels.com […]
Dealing With Fear and Anxiety At Work
Over the last few days – I had multiple conversations about different aspects of anxiety in the work place . I also chimed in on a couple of threads in social media about it . So when I woke up today – I felt like I should share some thoughts about how I deal with […]
The side effects of “seamless” work life integration
The smart people that I listen to have been saying for some time that I should think about the issue of “work life balance” more as work – life integration and it will be easier to make sense that way . Their infinite wisdom was that I will find a lot of useful things that […]
Low code – how much of the promise can it really deliver ?
This blog you are reading is written on a “low code” system – it is a wordpress blog where I have not used any custom coding at all. I could have – and I am an experienced developer. And yet I chose to not even touch html or CSS because it works for my limited […]
A strictly personal take on multi cloud
This is one of those topics where my employer IBM has a vested interest and consequently I need to state upfront that what I say below is strictly my own views from my limited view of the large enterprise world. My personal experience over the last couple of decades has been in the very large […]
The DIY movement in IT – what does it take to succeed ?
A few days ago, my friend Frank Scavo wrote about the pendulum starting to swing from commercial software to custom built software . Today morning, I listened to his podcast with another common friend Den Howlett . Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I would highly encourage you to read Frank’s blog and listen to the […]
Scaled Agile does not cure the lack of engineering maturity
Scaled Agile has the status of a religion in many tech shops I know. Like with religions – its followers express unquestioned faith, intolerance for other ideas (Waterfall is the devil, EVERYONE should be trained in SAFe), and its praises will drown its criticisms (its not a problem of the framework – you are just […]
Some thoughts on evaluating job opportunities
I woke up at 4AM PST today to watch the first innings of Eng vs Pak in the cricket World cup. And at 5AM , I saw an email pop up from someone I mentor – who wanted some help in thinking through whether he should stay in his current job, or move to a […]
