Author Archives: Vish Desai


This blog is officially closed…

Hi,
Just wanted to announce that this will be the last post on this blog.
To all of you who read these posts and took the time to comment, thanks a lot. And may our paths cross again in the future.
Good bye, and good luck!

NetBeans day at the JavaOne conference…

Just to let all you guys know that I will be presenting a 30 minute session on “Architecting thin-BLL applications using Open-ESB and BRMS” at the NetBeans day [Day 0 of the JavaOne conference] this year. If you are in the San Francisco area on May 7th and have some free time, please feel free […]

Customer Service & British banks…

Been reading through some of the blogs on cricket [the game, not the animal], since this weekend is THE game - the World Cup finals! For those of you who have no clue about how cricket is played… think of it as a far more complicated version of baseball, and lets leave it at that […]

Out of hibernation…

Whew! Its been a while since I’ve posted anything up here…
My apologies for the unscheduled break in the blog - it seems to me that, no matter how many times I’ve relocated (9 times in the last 15 years!!), it just does not seem to get any easier
Getting the basic stuff up and […]

Jet-lagged et al….

I am through with the 28 hour flight from Hyderabad, India to Irvine, CA, USA - got into office for the first time today.
I am, of course, still getting setup in the country - getting an apartment, driving license, bank account, etc. Assuming that I will be done with the formalities by the end of […]

Co-ordinates: A change…

Just to let you guys know that I am relocating to the USA on a long-ish assignment for my employer, YASU Technologies.
I will be based out of Irvine, CA [Orange County… south of Los Angeles] for the next few months, and maybe for as long as 3 years. I would love to meet up with any of […]

Recruiting visionaries from IIT???

Whew! I am done with the recruitment process for the year, and am finally back in town / office!!
First things first… we did follow the methodology I wrote about earlier and we did manage to recruit a few people from the Indian Institutes of Technology. One of the things I noticed about the successful candidates […]

Recruiting candidates from college: Thoughts on “What is the best interview process / approach?”…

As mentioned here, I am in the middle of an extremely hectic trip around the country to recruit the next generation of YASU-ites from the premier engineering colleges in India - the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). I am done with IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur and IIT Roorkee - IIT Chennai, IIT Kharagpur, and the […]

Business Agility Primer: Requesting your help for AN idea…

I had posted a while back on the “Business Agility Primer” - I’d promised that I want to get it done and over with by 15th Jan… So, I have been preparing a lot of material, etc. for the primer series - things like the capabilities of BRE / BRMS, BPM, ESB, BI, ECM / […]

Away from Office… recruiting the next-gen

I’m in the process of going around India recruiting the a bunch of kids from college for the next-gen YASU employees…
The schedule is almost impossibly tight - have breakfast by 8:00, do the pre-placement talk from 9:00 - 9:30, conduct the written test from 10:00 - 11:00, finish the shortlist by 2:00, break for […]