Thursday, March 20, 2008

20th March- Project switching

The reason we are encouraged to do our projects in a company is that we learn about the company culture, the work environment etc..things which may not easily learn in our class-rooms.For us at the mca dept..the entire last sem(6th sem) is dedicated to project work,which takes the form of internship when we get projects in a company.
I was lucky to get an internship offer from deloitte US.This was a great opportunity for me.

I along with jeremy were first placed in DPM project in asp.net technology.Since we did not have our desktops, we read some books on ado.net, tried getting familiar with the database. Thats when i was shifted for the first time from my project.The reason given was vague..but i thought that since we had still not received our desktops..and might be causing delays,they had to do it.
Fine with me.

I was put into a testing project.It was mainly manual database testing.I had to create test cases and execute them and log defects.I had the tool QC (Quality Center) to assist me.I was there till the completion on one phase of this project.Then for some days i had kind of no work.
i spent my days practicing .net and reading a lot on the net. then all the interns had a meeting with the resource manager, where i told her about my situation.that i currently had no work.(believe me its really boring).

A few days later i was put into the team i was first put into.the asp.net one.Jeremy was already rolled off from that project and aslo another guy.I was told that since i had ones worked with the team i was clled back (this was the biggest joke as jeremy had worked more on this project and actually got some experience.)i asked the team lead this question.Again no answer.I was told to
prepare some screen description document for some screens which incidently were prepared by jeremy. That was again boring..creating docs.

I was into my third day on this project when the resource manager again shifted me to another project.The current one.This too is on testing..the only difference is that i have to test the front end.

I think over the short duration uptill now i have been shifted the most.Even they cant help it as they cant put me in projects which will last a long duration as our stay over here is till mis june.whether they will offer us jobs is another question and i am not discussing it here.

The only good thing that has come out of this is that i have to come to know lot of people, which is good actually.Lets see how long more i am on this project.I am seriously beginning to think that if i am offered a job in deloitte it will be into testing.

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