Youtube - My Speed

Now YouTube too is providing a free service to display your downstreaming speed history.

Lookout for http://www.youtube.com/my_speed

Strategic Decision Making

Just attended a workshop on Decision Making and found it very interesting. So wanted to write about it.
Key Points :

• Lower level employees work with certainty whereas higher level employees work under ambiguity. Like in a software company a coder will be given a design, explained what to do - now all he has to do is to write the code and test it out - which is pretty certain. A higher level manager will get a job like "bring more projects".

There are three types of decisions:

• Strategic - Have Long Term Impact, are Less Frequently made, and have a High Cost of Change.
• Tactical - Something that can change based on time and situation.
• Operational - Opposite to Strategic i.e. have Short term impact, are made on regular intervals, and can be changed easily.
• Decisions which are strategic for low level folks can be operational for higher level ones and vice-versa.

Strategic Decision Framework:

• Information - Fact or Assumption
• Challenges (Internal or External) - Fixed or Changeable
• Specialized Knowledge - Accessible or Inaccessible (now made more accessible due to Internet)

Finally, build a Story to support your decision - very important for a manager to become a leader to convince all those impacted by the decision.

Finally :

• Define the objective - half the job is done.
• Apply the Framework (above)
• Look for Changeable Challenges
• Build Specialized Knowledge
• Develop articulation skills (for convincing)
• Review the decision as its strategic
• Document it
• Finally detach yourself and don't make the failure of the decision impact your ego

QwestIndia @ Facebook

Earlier I was trying to make a Qwest Page for Facebook. I was able to do a few things as posted on this earlier post.

So now I started working on a page for Qwest India. Its currently up in facebook although I have not been able to get a absolute URL for it. It can stil be searched or accessed from here.

Qwest India folks, please join it and provide some suggestions to improve it.

Also a Facebook App has been created to display the current job listing.

Visual Studio 2008: Can not locate Microsot Internet Explorer

Of late, while debugging from Visual Studio by pressing F5, I got the error:









I was still able to debug it by using "Attach to Process" but its not as easy as pressing F5.

So I looked for a solution and the solution is:
Visual Studio looks for the following registry key to locate Internet Explorer:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\iexplore.exe]



Open regedit and locate this key.

If its not present, then create one with the Default value pointing to your Internet Explorer location. Normally it will be c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe.

If its already present then check the default value and correct it.



To check if its working, open run command, and type in 'iexplore' and it should launch the Internet Explorer.

Now try doing a F5 on your Visual Studio and it should work.