Metrosexuality & dating in Technopark

Instant food, instant messenger and now it is instant s-e-x!! weekends and posh Cafés in the city are buzzing with budding aspirants and veterans as well. This is how it goes. Come Friday and he local guy techies of Technopark clamor to be back to their native places……. What else can the she techies go about having on Saturdays and Sundays??? Paid companions are no longer new to the city. Guys are at your service, just that she needs to sponsor them!!!!! This is how it goes…. ‘Ready to serve’ guys are out there at vantage points in the city. Are they gigolos? Common……. They are paid companions.. how dare you disgrace them???? The techie gals earning a handsome take home can take home these guys waiting for their turns. It is good fun. She gets a break…… and lavishes on him costly gifts or an awesome dinner. He happy!!!! She happy!!!!! And the proverbial moral police in town goes groaning…….hah hah…

The trend it seems stands institutionalized. Non keralite gals too should have some fun during weekends…….technoparkLive will soon publish the shocking news and real stories behind it !

Management programs from IIMs and XLRI in Trivandrum

Would you like to join the small percentile of professionals who rise to senior management positions?

Being a high-tech professional, your academic exposure and application of business management skills such as accounting or finance maybe very limited, yet as you move into team leading roles, such skills can become more important than technical skills. To perform on such roles, you need to move beyond individual achievement toward effective team driven business management, and from the current status quo toward an even greater capacity for change, growth, and leadership. Your technical strengths can bring you success during early stage of the career, but further advancement frequently requires the development of a more general set of skills and a more comprehensive, multi-functional perspective. Acquiring such skills not only help increase your confidence and vision at work but also enable you to join that elite cream of executives with hefty pay scales. And if renowned institutions like IIM and XLRI along with their certification stamp impart such skills, you can accelerate individual progress with a multifold increase in your value to the organization.

For the first time in Trivandrum, SPRINGBOARD™ is introducing prestigious management programs from IIMs and XLRI, targeted for the high-tech industry in Kerala. Enumerous corporate participants in Bangalore and other cities worldwide have already reaped the benefits of these global education programs. By helping participants develop a broader vision for company success, our satellite education programs help organizations groom the next generation of corporate leaders. This in-depth learning experience is well suited to the leadership needs and time demands of all high-tech professionals in today’s highly competitive environment. Leveraging advanced strategies and techniques, participants learn how to excel in decision-making and execution. Designed to drive corporate performance by creating indispensable leaders, our courses transforms the way executives think, manage, and solve problems. Participants prepare for organizational transformation by learning to lead responsibly, ethically, and strategically. Through a world-class multimedia infrastructure that streams real-time classrooms from IIMs and XLRI via satellite, SPRINGBOARD™ provides a highly interactive and collaborative learning environment.

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A Typical Day in a Software Company

Technopark Assessed CMMI Level 4

Technopark Assessed at Level 4 of the Capability Maturity
Model Integration (CMMI LEVEL 4)

Electronics Technology Parks – Kerala ( Technopark) today announced that it
had been assessed at Level 4 of the Capability Maturity Model Integration
(CMMI) of the Software Engineering Institute ( SEI), Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Quality Point Integrating Systems Private Limited carried out
this assessment for the Capability Maturity Model Integration (SE/SW/IPPD/SS
V1.1 Staged Representation)

CMMI is widely regarded as the best means to measure the quality and maturity
of an organization and is the best process improvement models available for
product, service development and maintenance. The successful Level 4 CMMI
assessment signifies that Technopark has established Quantitative objectives for
quality and process performance, which are used as the criteria in managing
processes.

“ We carried out the assessment strictly in accordance with SEI norms” said Ms.
Geetha Parthasarathy, of Quality Point, who was SEI’s authorized CMMI Lead
Assessor for Technopark’s CMMI Level 4 assessment. This assessment can be
attributed to the Senior Managements vision and leadership as also to the
professional excellence of its team members. Achieving the much coveted CMMI
is just another milestone in Technoparks journey to continue to remain a world
class facility” Ms. Parthasarathy went on to add that Technopark’s inherent
strength is its excellent team spirit and flat organizational structure.
Congratulating the team on its achievement, Mr. N R Mahalingam, CEO of
Technopark said, “ Achieveing CMMI level 4 is one of the most significant
milestone in Technopark’s journey to attain new heights in customer
satisfaction”.

Ms. Aruna Sundararajan, Secy IT, Government of Kerala said, “ Technopark’s
achievement has made the entire IT community and Kerala proud. The park has
been single minded in its pursuit of quality since its inception. I would like to
congratulate the entire team for having achieved this major milestone”

About Software Engineering Institute

The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and
development center, established in 1984 by the US Department of Defense with
a broad Charter to address the transition of software engineering technology.
The SEI is an integral component of Carnegie Mellon University and is sponsored
by the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology
(OUSD[A&T].

About Capability Maturity Model Integration

The purpose of CMM Integration is to provide guidance for improving an
organization’s processes and its ability to manage the development, acquisition
and maintenance of products or services. CMM Integration places proven
approaches into a structure that helps an organization appraise its organizational
maturity or process area capability, establish priorities for improvement, and
implement these improvements

About Technopark

Technopark, Trivandrum , an autonomous society promoted by the Government
of Kerala, is India’s first technology park and amoung the two largest IT parks in
India today. Spread over 156 acres, and about 1.5 m. sqft of built up space,
Technopark hosts about 60 IT and ITES companies.
Technopark is the IT hub of the State of Kerala and based in Trivandrum which
can rightfully claim to be the knowledge capital of the region. Technopark
provides world class, robust and failsafe physical, power and datacom
infrastructure, offering a no compromise yet low cost enabling environment for
the IT industry that is leveraged by its occupant companies for a competitive
advantage.

The Technobird

Technobird ( photo courtesy : Tittoo Thomas )

Picture of the day – Green Technopark

Green Technopark – a view from Bhavani

IBS Salsa Dance competetion at Travancore hall in Park centre, Technopark

Today a salsa dance competition is conducting by IBS software services, Teh venue is Travancore hall, Park center. Time is 6.00 PM onwards. It is intra-company competition.So the entry is limited to IBS employees and few other invited guests. IBS having a number of salsa dancers, who performed Tek a break and voice of the park launch event.

Read Tek-a-Break success story of IBS dance team Here…

Holi Celebrations in Technopark

Holi celebrations in Technopark

Holi, the festival of colors is celebrated with gusto in different parts of our country.Technopark being a potpourri of various cultures celebrated Holi with all the colors and its joy. here is some pictures.

In Tehcnopark, many companies celebrated Holi, among them here is snaps from the Holi celebrations happened in UST Global

Taste of the Holi

UST Global conducted a competetion among the employees to prepare the best tastes of Holi, here is some mouthwatering preparations….

Holi Rang De…Rang De… – Dance it !

A view from Coffee Beenz, Technopark

Enjoy a baba budan – A view from coffee beanz, technopark