First Day of Work

Birlasoft Day 1:
What a welcome.

As our car arrived at the office for the first full day of work we were greeted with an almost Presidential greeting. In addition to a beautiful sign welcoming Ted Young and Jay Hauser from Rapattoni Corporation, we were also given a ceremonial ?? and a cascade of flowers. For two very low-key people, it was a little overwhelming.

"It was a wonderful expression of the Indian hospitality, which we greatly appreciated," said Ted.

After the welcoming ceremony we went upstairs and got started on our first day. Because we had met the team on Saturday and laid out our plan for the week, we were able to dive right into teaching the team about the requirements for the Events and Education managers in iMagic.

The 12 or so programmers seemed eager to learn, and peppered Ted with questions as he filled a white board with diagrams that explained how the Event module should work.

To keep things interesting, we decided to offer a prize at the end of the visit to the person who asked the best questions. So far, last year's winner Subramani has taken the early lead by asking questions that show that not only does he understand the workflow of the system, but also how it relates to the Membership and Accounting managers.

In addition to Subramani, the team also includes Sundar (Project Manager), Magesh, Chanchal, Tappan, Kartik, Ramkumar, Rajalakshmi, rajashwari, Manjula, and Matti. All are very bright and very motivated. It's been a pleasure working with them.

After Ted explained the Event Module, Anil went into greater detail and displayed the prototype he developed. During these two sessions we came up with many new enhancements to the product that will make it even better.

After a lunch break we returned and continued to explain the event module. We will continue our work on Tuesday, complete the discussion and begin talking about the Education manager.
We made a lot of good progress. And we're looking forward to tomorrow.

BTW: It was "only" about 94 degrees yesterday. Not too bad. Also, Indian Pizza Hut comes with ketchup packets...and corn. So yummy.

I'd tell you all the exciting things we did that night, but Anil stayed late at the office, and Ted and I went back to the hotel and crashed after dinner.