Wednesday Team Meet!

Wednesday meetings are where we discuss the issues/concerns about the current project and make decisions as a team(Finance A1S, R&BI). We also have a session/presentation by a speaker from the team on optimizing work/domain knowledge share… For me, that was the first time I met the team(I mean, the offshore team). It’s fantastic to meet so many people from around India working in my team. I wasn’t aware of their names(except a couple of them), because I didn’t have enough time to study their background in advance(as in I didn’t look for them in the internal address book). There were Researcher(Panda)/bloggers(swetha)/IITians(Kamal kant)… I wasn’t aware of the topics they were discussing at the meet. But, All were full of passion and energy. I could feel from them how much they would like to work in the team.

After the meeting, I went to the Training session where I realized that I had missed the Finance session taken by Syamala. I didn’t understand anything for the next half an hour but found a couple of them around me who gave me company. To add to the list, we had an assessment test on the same day. The syllabus being the topics taken for the past three days. There were a lot of them who took the test seriously, but again we, the backbenchers had our own ways of doing it. Syamala helped us in lot of ways by giving hints as to where these questions came from. The moment the test got over, everyone had a holiday mood and didn’t want her to continue her session. She agreed for that on the condition that we go through it for 20 minutes and she would have a quiz. We just managed to escape the quiz and return to our guest houses provided by SAP Labs.

At the guest house, all my friends brought in different local news, we talked about all kinds of topics(projects, teams, etc), just like brothers. Everyone was excited to play snooker, so was I. We set out to the club house at 9pm and crashed to bed as mid-night.