Archive for April 23, 2008

Groups back on track

April 23, 2008 at 5:08 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged

The news is we have crossed 100 mails for the month of April, 2008. This year was NOT really a good start for Invis. The number of mails plummeted and everybody seemed to have forgotten the groups. In fact, in the month of February 2008, we hit record low. It was just “9″, only single digit count ever recorded.

Luckily, there is a huge turn around. Still 7 more days to go in April, we have already crossed 100. This is higher than any recorded month of 2007. This is the fifth time we are crossing hundred , recorded for past four years. As per stats, 2006 happened to be the best year all around, with three century-months in that year alone.

We are doing good. Let us keep up the spirit and make 2008 one of the heavily bonded and best Invader years ever to come.

Thanks for reading

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How Invaders Intelligence Bureau formed?

April 23, 2008 at 3:58 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged ,

You all know about IIB and its great actions in investigating and reporting the actions of fellow Invaders. But none of you know how it started. Here is how.

Monday Nov 20, 2006 2246 HRS IST.

Nana and myself were discussing about atrocious activities of one of the Invaders. At that time, there was some kind of news that CSO was having an affair with his maid. Here is abridged version of the transaction, that created IIB.

Me: There?

Nana: Yes

Me: See this …CSO’s attrocities (Orkut link of his photo with a girl)

Nana: Is this the maid girl? Post it to the groups with good subject.

Me: Subjects like Kaadhal Sirai, The Kumbakonam Passion, CSO vin JILPANZ would be good.. How is it?

Nana: [After Sometime] The upcoming Cyber Manmadhan-a short Report.. What about this?

Me: Rather than “short” report replace it with (c) Intelligence Report

Nana: I feel if you send this, it will get good response in group. Then I can reply,.. Aravanikura maathiri CSO va kavuthiralam :)

Me: Ok I will send the mail and I will put thanks for your title suggestion

Nana: Ok. Also you can have a Footer like “IIB-Invaders Intelligence Bureau“. Co-ordinators Madhu and Nana.. “Netrikan thirpainum Kutram kutramey“

Me: Thats cool man. I like it

[After some time]

Me: Check mail

Nana: Hmm., It is great. We shud give a designation, can be joint directors. You can be senior director and I can be secret agent – Information Wing

Me: It will be fancy to give out such things like Public Relations and all. We are everybody in the company

“Company” I said that unknowingly and thus IIB formed, without knowing at that time that it would get good recognition from Invaders. As you could see, Nana is the one who suggested the name and tag.

CSO is the first to get an exclusive coverage. As response, the most stunning display of atrocity was made by Pavalam in his following mails. Pavalam self proclaimed that he was PPP of IIB. That is Parakum Padai Pavalam(Flying Squad Pavalam). Pavalam’s mail provoked most of the Invaders. Ramba’s reply to Pavalam was really worst of its kind. He said PPP as Parakkum Paadai(Flying Coffin). Starting from KST to Srihari, everybody went on ravage.

Srihari, being so intelligent, doubted me and Nana in this incident. He said we were the worst guys around and appealed to Ramba to control us. After this CSO intelligently proved from mail headers that mail is from Italy and not Chennai. Later everybody got to know, that it was Nana and myself, who sent out a spoof mail from Pavalam’s ID.(Sorry da, Pavalam). We did this to make IIB a hit in our group and to cool CSO who seemed to be tensed at that time. This single unanimous attack on Pavalam proved the indirect powers of IIB. Nana and myself, even though felt sorry for Pavalam, were happy and satisfied and decided to continue our operations. After knowing the truth, everybody made an apology to Pavalam, which was really touching.

The funny thing out all of this was, everybody claimed a title in IIB. We received lot of requests for new additions, Ramba – Cheif Consultant, Research Wing, IIB, KST – Chief Investigating Officer, IIB, etc., Science Srini became believer of IIB’s capabilities and requested for lot of investigations. He also compared us with RAW, CIA.

Now IIB becomes one among Invaders. More on IIB in next IIB posts.

Thanks for reading. Apologies for those who suffered in formation of this bureau.

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Tech Talk – 1 : Kottai Business Analyst

April 23, 2008 at 2:52 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged

In this new series of discussion about anything technical and useful to Invaders, Kottai has started sharing his first hand experience about Business Analyst job profile. Let us hear from the expert

Dear Invis ,
Good to write the first Tech talk. Topic for today is “Demystifying Business Analyst (BA)”

Who can be a BA?
Answer is pretty simple “Anyone one could be a BA”. Generally as per market, A person with MBA could become a BA easily. Most companies prefer people with B.E and MBA . They call them as Techno Domain; we shall talk about it little later.

Non MBA, who have extensive industry knowledge can also be an BA, but they lack certain skills like, they will know what to be done “ but does not know “How to be done”. This is the place where people with BE CS score above them.

What BA does?
Simply check mails??? Or work with excel sheets that’s what people generally perceive BA‘s work. It untrue, BA are generally responsible for the whole project or a module, they are sole responsible for the functionality of the software. For example take any banking system or a mortgage system , all calculations and formulae should be clearly obtained or arrived and should be validated once the coding is done , this is what they call as Functional Testing.

So initially first work of the BA would be requirements Gathering, next would be analyzing them.

Generally clients will not elucidate the requirements as we want, for e.g. Customer simply say they want to capture the customer details , it’s the role of a BA to break the general requirement (customer details) to more detailed one (such as Customer Name varchar(100), age number(3), address, etc etc.) .

What is Domain, does it require for a BA?
The paragraphs talked about BA of generic type, they could work on any client project.

But they fail in projects that deal with an Unknown domain e.g. Insurance, For this the BA should be aware of Insurance terms, business process, basically he should understand the insurance jargons the customer speaks. There are many domains to be specialized like Insurance, Banking, Health care, Logistics, Supply chain etc BA can choose one domain and obtain extensive knowledge in it. There are many international bodies who conduct certification in various domains for instance AII/AICPCU , LOMA , CII are some of the exams that could be taken to specialize in Insurance

Other Responsibilities
Developing SRS (software requirement specification)
Functional specifications
Use cases
Functional test cases
Review
UAT (User acceptance testing)
Proposal development
I love the job of a BA, where responsibility and accountability is very high. And sense of satisfaction is huge.

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