Soccer and Software
I love football and I work for an IT company.At times I try to relate some of the terms used in either of these two fields and here are a few of them.Those of you who are not aware of these football terms can get to
know it(Hearty welcome to the world of football) and those of you who have not yet witnessed these scenarios in IT industry, dont worry you will get to it shortly.
1. Cup Tied:
Football: One who played a champions league match before transfering to a new club.He is not entitled to represent his new club in champions league.
S/w Company: One whos visa(usually L1) to US is under process.He cannot transfer or switch over to another company unless he pays a heavy penalty to his existing company as Visa processing fee.
2. Transfer Window:
Football: Usually the time of season during which the clubs can transfer players between them, happens twice a year(winter Transfer and summer transfer).
S/W Company: It denotes the time during which employees change to other companies. Usually during the period of time after which Bonus/hike is announced or Credited every year.
3. Sack Race:
Football: A competition involving the managers belonging to badly performing clubs to determine who will be fired first.
S/W Company: A competition involving the managers who did not get promoted in the current cycle and to determine who will resign their jobs first.
4. Contract extension talks:
Football: The discussion between a Player and his Manager to see what could be done to extend his stay.If both the party comes to an understanding they stand by it.
S/W company: The discussion between a programmer and his Manager to see what kind of Monetary (compensation,onsite) and non monetary (oppurtunities in other projects) that could promised to the programmer, but not necessarily implemented.Usually happens during the performance review time.
5. Unbeaten Run:
FootBall: It indicates the number of matches that a team remains unbeaten.The team might draw with a 0-0 or play boring stuff but it doesn't matter, they take pride in being Unbeaten.(as South Africa did it in Cricket
ODI before losing to India)
S/W company: It can denote that the Project has been released and there wasn't any defect till date, only catch here is that it might not have even started running, but simply moved.
6. Substitutes:
FootBall: Denotes those players who plays for other players in case of injury or strategy or performance during a game and expected to play as good as the main player.Only three allowed in a match.
S/W company: Denotes those programmers/buffers(a.k.a Trainees or Freshers) who replace others due to resgination or outsourcing or performance during a project and expected to match their senior's performance.Usually a percentage of total number of resources (usually 10%) is allocated to a project.
7. Bench : Pretty obvious in both cases - Non-playing / Non-billing.
The next few days in all the club championships one can hear these words being repeated by the commentators with a few adverbs and adjectives in between to frame the sentences.The reason is these championships are almost reaching the half way stage where most of the teams look up at their performance and try to correct their mistakes.This holds true again for some software companies which have their financial year marked as Jan-dec.
know it(Hearty welcome to the world of football) and those of you who have not yet witnessed these scenarios in IT industry, dont worry you will get to it shortly.
1. Cup Tied:
Football: One who played a champions league match before transfering to a new club.He is not entitled to represent his new club in champions league.
S/w Company: One whos visa(usually L1) to US is under process.He cannot transfer or switch over to another company unless he pays a heavy penalty to his existing company as Visa processing fee.
2. Transfer Window:
Football: Usually the time of season during which the clubs can transfer players between them, happens twice a year(winter Transfer and summer transfer).
S/W Company: It denotes the time during which employees change to other companies. Usually during the period of time after which Bonus/hike is announced or Credited every year.
3. Sack Race:
Football: A competition involving the managers belonging to badly performing clubs to determine who will be fired first.
S/W Company: A competition involving the managers who did not get promoted in the current cycle and to determine who will resign their jobs first.
4. Contract extension talks:
Football: The discussion between a Player and his Manager to see what could be done to extend his stay.If both the party comes to an understanding they stand by it.
S/W company: The discussion between a programmer and his Manager to see what kind of Monetary (compensation,onsite) and non monetary (oppurtunities in other projects) that could promised to the programmer, but not necessarily implemented.Usually happens during the performance review time.
5. Unbeaten Run:
FootBall: It indicates the number of matches that a team remains unbeaten.The team might draw with a 0-0 or play boring stuff but it doesn't matter, they take pride in being Unbeaten.(as South Africa did it in Cricket
ODI before losing to India)
S/W company: It can denote that the Project has been released and there wasn't any defect till date, only catch here is that it might not have even started running, but simply moved.
6. Substitutes:
FootBall: Denotes those players who plays for other players in case of injury or strategy or performance during a game and expected to play as good as the main player.Only three allowed in a match.
S/W company: Denotes those programmers/buffers(a.k.a Trainees or Freshers) who replace others due to resgination or outsourcing or performance during a project and expected to match their senior's performance.Usually a percentage of total number of resources (usually 10%) is allocated to a project.
7. Bench : Pretty obvious in both cases - Non-playing / Non-billing.
The next few days in all the club championships one can hear these words being repeated by the commentators with a few adverbs and adjectives in between to frame the sentences.The reason is these championships are almost reaching the half way stage where most of the teams look up at their performance and try to correct their mistakes.This holds true again for some software companies which have their financial year marked as Jan-dec.
posted by srivat at 9:15 AM
8 Comments:
template looks good. it is certainly easy on the eye than the previous one.
Thanks Bala.Though I liked the previous black and white(and it had its use also.:-)), I thought its time I changed it.Appavavathu Real Madrid Win panrangalannu pakkalam.:-(.
Hey, the template is nice! Looks like the previous one is not of much use in your new firm :-) or does it mean, your life is getting 'color'ful?
What about 'Cheer Girls' ????
yadhvi,
Both. But not the 'colour'ful you mean. I think its time I realised what is in me and what am I capable of. No huge sighs hereafter.
Pkar,
Good question.
Cheer girls - Well thats something that I'm not good at explaining. I would call them 'Passer by' :-). Most of the times its a not applicable option to me.
Srivat,
Good one! And a teams success depends largely on the bench strength too right? ;-)
And as yadhvi said, template la color. Pudhu coloru pudhu postu. pudhu aapees. Kalakkara chandru ;-)
Ferrari,
Yeah.I agree with bench strength, but some people(not me) who are on bench dont realise it.
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