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Famous Five - Five things I have learned about Project Management from Enid Blyton's series

​During this summer, my wife and I introduced my eight years kid to Enid Blyton's series Famous Five. I was very delighted as this was one of my favourite series in my childhood and we're hoping that my son will also enjoy it the same way.  After buying the book, my son and me were ready the book together. Much to my surprize I have learnt quite a good few tricks in Project Management and I want to share with you top Five tricks. 1. Planning : As said in PMBOK, planning is most crucial part of project management and without planning one is planning to fail. so does in Famous Five series. While they plan to explore the treasure Island, they jot down all the resources they might need for successful execution of the exploration. From food to axe, they listed everything they might require. Also, they planned for 3 days resources. So, identifying appropriate tools is very essential to be successful project execution. 2. Team : While work in a team, we need to understand that...

Hybris Datahub 5.3 - Composition Issue

​In one of the project, when we are using Datahub to load data from SAP to Hybris, we have find a strange issue. We are loading customer data with one flag (say ship-Together) is loading properly first time. But, after that, if the value is changes at the source (SAP), the changed value in Hybris is not showing always. Sometimes corrected value is updated and sometimes not. The reason is very trivial and depends on the Item status and life cycle. The life cycle of the canonical items is as below 1. For new data set, canonical items are created. 2.   If the canonical item was composed successfully with no errors, the newly created canonical item gets assigned a status of SUCCESS. Only canonical items with a status of SUCCESS are published to a target system, any other items are ignored during publication. There can only be one canonical item with a status of SUCCESS per integration key in the same pool.  2A. In case the items was not composed properly, the status c...

5 Things I learned about Integration project while building my home

​ From my childhood I had a dream to have my own house. It should have nice surroundings, good greenery, and nice neighbors. Also, the room size will be good enough. It should have my own study room. Now I am very near to my dream and it becomes a reality. The house is being built by the builder. However, my wife and I decided to have our customized kitchen. So, the modular kitchen and on top of it granite fitting, we have decided to go by ourselves. This had teach me very important lesson about the integration project. I have listed top five lessons I have learned about the integration project. Although the pre-requisite is to hire the consultant who has prior experience of similar kind of job. 1.        Interface specification :  The first thing I faced while implementing the granite top and modular kitchen is that getting the measurement from both the team, - the carpenter team and the team who will cut, fix and set the granite. It...

Big data and commerce/eCommerce merchandising

As Craig Mundie, Senior Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft mentioned that "data are becoming new raw material about the business", the Omni-channel merchandising are making their decision based on the data and analytics helps them to predict the future demand flow. The Big data analytics are helping the merchandising decisions retailers are making every day. A few examples where data driven decision are being taken in the etail/retail space regularly. Although, business decisions are very complex and based on a lot more factors, below are the few examples where key matrices are created and helps management to take decisions. Assortment :  Keep product A, drop product B, add product C – these kind of decisions were taken based on the data and sensitivity analysis using big data frame work. Online Marketing and campaign management : Big data can analyze the sentiments of the customers based on the reviews and analyzing the social media and helps marketing team to take info...