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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...