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call. Satish dial into the bridge now,” said
Murali.
    Murali went
back to his cubicle.
    Satish then
came to Vinay’s cubicle and used the phone there. He dialed into the bridge for
the conference call. He then waited for the customer to join. Everyone pulled
their chairs near to the phone.
    Murali joined
the call from his cubicle.
    “Hai, this is
Satish. May I know who has just joined?” asked Satish.
    “Hi Satish, this
is Anna. How are you doing?” asked Anna Howard.
    “Hai Anna. I’m
doing fine. We have Murali and the team in the call,” said Satish.
    “Hai Anna,
this is Murali. How was your trip to Dublin?” asked Murali.
    “Yes it went
great. I had to attend to lot of business there. How’s the progress there?” asked
Anna.
    “Satish, can
you update on the progress?” asked Murali.
    “Ya. We had
started working on the POC activities. Himesh and Vinay are working on that,”
said Satish.
    “Murali you
were not in the call on Monday? Two months for POC is not acceptable. I cannot
afford to wait for that long. We have five resources in the team. It should be
completed in one month. It should not take more than that,” said Anna.
    “Yes Anna we
will target to complete in a month. If we can complete by that time it’s well
and good,” said Murali.
    “Are you
telling me we are in the first week of POC and nothing has been done? Perhaps
we should discuss and take a step back,” said Anna.
    “Vinay and
Himesh are working on the POC. They will update you the progress regularly. We
will track the progress and see how it goes. I have to join another meeting
now. I will drop off now. Satish, please continue with the status updates,”
said Murali.
    Himesh thought
Anna’s voice was so aggressive that even people who were confident of
completing work within timelines would lose their confidence if they work with
her.
    Satish spent
the next ten minutes walking through the progress of each activity. He then
told Vinay and Himesh to update on the POC activities.
    Himesh briefed
about the progress in POC. Vinay explained his initial design for the POC. The
call got over after another ten minutes.

Chapter 4
    Vinay and
Himesh both continued work on the POC. Vinay used to check the status of the IS
ticket for ODC door access everyday both morning and afternoon. The ticket was
pending with Jeetender from IS team. He tried to reach Jeetender many times in
the last ten days. He called his mobile and landline numbers but Jeetender
never picked up the call. He sent many emails but nothing happened. Satish told
him it will take time.
    In the
afternoon when Vinay checked the status of IS ticket, he was shocked to see the
status as “Rejected”. The reason mentioned in the ticket for rejecting was “Web
security course version should be 4.2.1 and not 4.2”. He immediately accessed
the online course and found that only version 4.2.1 was available. He could not
find the version 4.2 which he completed two weeks back. Vinay sighed and went
on to complete the course for version 4.2.1.
    Satish told
him to raise another ticket for door access as the rejected ticket cannot be
reopened. Vinay got the ODC door access exactly twenty days after he originally
raised the first ticket. He was finally relieved after he can access the door
without standing there for five to ten minutes every time.
    Vinay and
Himesh focused on the POC.
    He asked
Shanthi if she can take up work on building the Graphical User Interface aka GUI
part.
    “I’m fully
loaded with creating the Use Case specification documents. Most of my time will
be gone there. Check with Satish,” she said.
    When Vinay
asked Satish, he replied, “No. I’m busy with environment set up for the
different geographic regions required for this project. I’m also working on the
Architecture documents. You can divide the work between yourself and Himesh.”
    Vinay and
Himesh worked between fourteen to fifteen hours every day. Himesh took up the
work on the GUI as well. They both