Sunday, April 5, 2009

NO LIGHT : Time for Photography

16 hrs a day is normal load shedding schedule for people living in Kathmandu, Nepal. We all know that and nothing new about it and nobody cares i guess. Some time NEA(No Electricity Authority) shows some mercy and we have power at odd hours, most often during night. Many thanks to NEA. There is no fixed schedule for it. Keep waking up who knows there could be light.

If there is no light then no work. Laptop battery is also no good these days. It also goes to zero within 15 to 20 mins. Then what? Just relax with heavy head thinking about deadlines. Today i had a better option. I practiced some photography. Following are three snaps i want to share.



































I wished candle light can run my laptop. :) Keep dreaming.....

Thursday, April 2, 2009

OSCN 2009 - saralScrum

saralScrum is my project for OSCN 2009. It is accepted and work is underway in great speed. :) Currently my project page is not open for public as it is competition. It will be open when competition is over. Competition result date is Saturday, June 20, 2009. But i am very much excited about the project and want to share some information about it here. As the first round, everybody will be interested to know what is my project all about.

Following is the abstract of my proposal

Abstract

With compared to waterfall process model, Scrum has very promising results in software development management with better on time, on budget and with high value features product delivery. But in distributed team following Scrum is difficult due to geographical barriers. The main objective of the project is to develop a web-based system that supports artifacts of Scrum. I named it as saralScrum. On the successful completion of the project, a system with essential element like project backlog, sprint backlog, burndown chart of Scrum will be ready. saralScrum will act as common platform for distributed scrum team. It will greatly reduce communication problem and help scrum team to have up to date information of the project. It will also make aware of Scrum to Nepali software company which is constantly making effort to place Nepal as one of good outsourcing location in the world. With its use they will have more competitive advantage in global arena.


That's all for now. More about saralScrum is comming soon.