$100 gadget

Interesting news to share with you all, mass production started for $100 laptops and they are very soon going to be with the school going children. Sources say by October 2007 we can have them. Check for more details here

Do we need discipline while developing a product?

Anybody who wants to develop a product should answer the below 3 questions to themselves.

1. Why do we need it?

2. What happens if doesn't exist?

3. Who are the takers?

Once answered all the above 3 questions we are convinced and made sure ourselves that why the product should be developed. Then to develop the product we need an elaborative and systematic plan of action, Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) becomes an instrument to achieve this.

Every product is subjected to market actions!!! marketing management can deffinetly alter the shape of the product, in other words marketing management would drive the product to its destiny and product life cycle management will become an instrumentation to have a user friendly usable product.

Going through the product life cycle is of its kind. If we enjoy while doing the same, it gives us more fruits personally and for the product too. Especially when the whole team participates, involves in putting their efforts to revolutionarize the product. Ofcourse it is a painful process to produce documents and sitting in brain storming sessions, but that's the real fun to have.

Very first step in the Product Life Cycle is to gather the requirements, these requirements shouldn't be constrained / limited or shall not be derived keeping deadlines in view. And when we start gathering requirements for a particular product we need to keep in mind an end users perspective of using it. How an end user is going to use the product. If we can step into the shoes of the end user and productize to his / her needs then the job is accomplished.

Product LifeCycle provides the required discipline to achieve the same and restrict the developer not slipping towards someone's imagination, and will ensure the product is not to satisfy somebody's technical thirst. And the key thing one needs to think of always is that, the technology is only a means to provide a better / convenient way of giving usable solution to an end user.

I would like to discuss / share more on Product Life Cycle Management in further blogs.

Does SOA equates with Webservices

An interesting article about "is SOA means Webservices?"posted by Armon Rotem-Gal-Oz on infoq . Many of us think that SOA == webservices is it really true? this article talks about it. Find the article here
this will definitely give us an opportunity to think about SOA and webservices in a different angle altogether.

Peppy How interesting it is

Peppy is a beautiful concept which i liked it at the first instance and when I have seen and tried the sample version of it, was really thrilled. I guess lot more going to come our way with netbeans. Netbeans rocking as usual...Hurray!!!
Find Geertjan blog about it here and also find the nbm to try

Why Iam Here

Today I just thought of having an external face, where I can share about what I am doing all the time sitting in front of stupid idiotic box (my laptop). I call it as idiotic box because even after I do thousands silly errors on this box this will not shout.

Ok if we leave this aside I shall think about why i am here? and what is the thought behind having this external face? Could be because I can reach out more people, freak out more frequently and to confuse people... no I am just kidding.

I am sure that this blog will help me validating my understandings.

You can also find me at http://blogs.sun.com/narayana/