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Learning and Development: The Pramati WayFIVE SCENES:

� A client panics because a technical problem related to the service you provide is seriously

a�ecting daily business. The client is losing money, and wants the issue to go away now, if not

yesterday. You know you can’t promise results or project timelines. The problem is a serious one

and the solution is nowhere in sight. What do you say?

� You’re an introvert, shy, yet single-minded about work. You’re willing to put in any amount of

hours solo during the work day. But the project to which you’re currently assigned requires

collaboration and teamwork on a daily basis. What do you do?

� One member on your team consistently gets recognized for work to which many others have

contributed. You decide to do something about it. How do you make sure credit goes where

credit is due?

� A colleague consistently uses unprofessional language, which can sometimes be o�ensive, to

you and to others. How do you react?

� A client gives a requirement to your team in non-technical terms. How do you go about

choosing appropriate solutions and corresponding technologies (especially when the

technologies that provide the best solutions lie outside your comfort zone)?

What do the above workplace scenarios have to do with learning and development, you ask?

Each of the five requires critical thinking, what business analysts argue is a crucial aspect of

workplace success, in which learning and development can play a vital role. The five scenarios

respectively represent the five domains of Learning and Development at Pramati:

Communication, Personality, Leadership, Culture, and Technology. Critical thinking is the

driving force behind all five domains.

BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS CRITICAL THINKING?

We all have the capacity to think. But often, our thinking tends to be muddled, distorted, or

incomplete. Sometimes, we act/react according to pre-existing attitudes, beliefs, or feelings.

Critical thinking is reflecting on any question or problem in a clear, open-minded manner,

carefully considering surrounding factors and facts.

CRITICAL THINKERS CAN:

Listen actively, Raise relevant questions, Gather and interpret information, Consider other points

of view, Reason out assumptions, implications, and practical consequences, Problem-solve using

logic and reasoning, Communicate e�ectively and ethically about problems, process, and

possible solutions.

Critical thinking can improve the quality of your ideas, output, and life. Watch the L&D calendar in

months to come for programs that will make critical thinkers out of us all!

Akhila Ramnarayan

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BangaloreChennai

Personal Launcher for tablets, a custom Android

launcher which allows multiple users to create

password-protected accounts, designed to restrict

access, went Live on the Play Store iIn July. The mobile

version is now out and available on the Play Store.

The administrator decides which group/user can use

which features and apps while also setting time limits for

particular users, denying them internet access etc. This

app is ideal for phones used by more than one person,

parental control, and businesses like restaurants, kiosks

and internet centers.

GBClaims is a customized SharePoint site to facilitate a

single repository for all the claims operations documents

for Gallagher Bassett division. The BA\Dev and QA

teams from Bangalore worked in unison while

accommodating change in schedules to successfully

release this application. The financial apps team

optimized a key transaction matching process by

making it scale up to ‘n’ transactions from the current

200.

QA signed o� on two critical projects for the AJG

business undergoing the transition from Lotus Notes to

SharePoint – International Network and AJG

Compliance based Internal Review. GREAT, ICE and ART

6.0 was successfully signed o� as part of financial

applications. For GB Division, they signed o� Paradox

system Phase 1 and data transfer.

Pramati is developing the 2014 enterprise planning

applications for AJG, using Cognos Enterprise Planning

module. These applications support the new Chart of

Accounts. The planning application for BSD RPS was

released to production in September.

Mountain View / Hyderabad

CastlightHealth: Work at Castlight is going through an agile phase now and the team is experiencing the taste of

sprint-based delivery model. All the new features rolled out by Imaginea as well as communication, delivery and

commitment have been exceptional and highly appreciated by the client so far. . Many of the Imagineans at Hyderabad

have been personally appreciated via gift cards sent by the Product Manager at Castlight through one of the managers

who visited Hyderabad recently.

There will be more engagements in coming quarter and trips to SF for short term commitments.

All and all, great work and great ownership qualities demonstrated by us so far.

Hyderabad

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Vyasaraj V

I’m from Karnataka. Politics is my interest. Two favourite

movies are "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "Invictus".

One recent fun experience was a visit to Deccan Trails

with my team.

new entrants

Vamsi Krishna Chava

Hi! I am from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. I like collecting

movies, playing cricket and video games. One of my

favourite books is Ayn Rand’s “Fountain Head”. A recent

experience that made me happy was joining Pramati.

Sushma Madirala

I’m from Vizag. My hobbies are painting (emboss, pot,

canvas), pencil sketching, paper filigree (aka quilling)

and I’m interested in photography and gardening. Two

favourite movies are “Tinker Bell” and “Life of Pi”. One

recent fun experience was a trip to Araku Valley. The

plan finally took shape after several attempts. I enjoyed

the weather, scenic beauty and the lack of mobile

coverage and internet access. I do not even remember

when I last had such a great time without mobiles and

internet.

Anil Kumar Komanduri

I’m from Hyderabad. I like all genres of music, writing

and exercise. I particularly enjoyed the “Shiva trilogy” by

Amish Tripathi. I find it to be a good blend of fiction and

mythology with excellent narration that keeps the

imaginative juices flowing.

Recently I achieved my long pending resolution of losing

9 kilos in one-and- half months by maintaining a

balanced diet and regularly working out. I feel much

more active and energetic now!

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Chennai

Bangalore

Purba Ghosh

I am a major foodie and love movies. Amongst friends I

am known as the "Movie Database". I am generally

known for my mischiefs and the hulk load of food I can

gobble. I was a Senior Application Developer at iNautix

for three years, working on Mainframes. My hobbies

include painting, gardening, reading, cooking and

movies! I am a big fan of Michael Schumacher. I have a

scrap book which contains over 200 cut outs and still

maintain it though I’ve grown up. I also make

personalized greeting cards/books for friends and family.

My favourite movie has been and always will be "Forrest

Gump". I love the idea of a man being able to do anything

he wants to with no restrictions or fear. My favourite

books are the "Sherlock Holmes Volumes by Sir Arthur

Conan Doyle" because life would be boring if there were

nothing to unravel.

Since I have fun all the time, it’s very di�cult to pick one

recent fun experience. It probably would be plant

hunting in ECR from various nurseries for our garden.

Madan TK

Hi I’m from Bangalore. I like playing cricket and my

favourite movie is Indian. A recent funny experience I had

was on an AC sleeper bus from Bangalore to Hyderabad.

I saw a note saying ‘Don't charge your laptop or the bus

will break-down’. But one person decided to charge his

laptop despite this warning. Within 10 minutes the bus

broke down. The reason the man gave to the angry bus

driver was that he didn’t have a mobile charger, only had

a data cable, and so he needed his laptop to charge his

phone!

Priyanka Sharma

I am from Vidisha, a City in the heart of India (Madhaya

Pradesh).I am an optimistic person who believes in hard

work in a smart way. My interests are - gardening, music,

dancing, sports etc. My favourite movie is "The Core" as

it's a superb science fiction art.

Sasidhar Pasa

I’m an easy going person whoworks well with everyone. I

enjoy being around di�erent types of people and I like to

always challenge myself to improve at everything I do.

I am interested in organic farming and animal care. My

favourite movie is “The Godfather” because it teaches

how to live our life and not to.

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By: Ramamoorthy, Praveen and Nikita

chennai photowalk@mylapore

In the middle of a temple tank is a lotus plant. The lotus

leaves double in size every day. After exactly 47 days, the

lotus leaves will cover the whole tank. How long will it

take for the leaves cover half the pool?

Here’s another word ladder. I hope you remember them

from the July issue of Plug-in.

Go from FOOL to SAGE. Ex – Cat to Rag will be

CAT>RAT>RAG. Remember to change only one letter at

each step and no shu�ing i.e CAT cannot become ACT.

There is only one correct option from the following

answer options. Which one is it?

a) Answer X

b) Answer X or Y and

c) Answer Y or Z

Winner of last month’s puzzle is Jahan LaskarCongratulations! You win a gift coupon from Flipkart.

The easy answers to last month’s puzzle are: 1. Promise 2. A Cold3. Sponge 4. Mountain

Send in your entries to nikita.s@imaginea.com

The first person to send in the correct answer to the above puzzles will win a gift coupon.

Hyderabad� 5th and 6th: There was a two-day in-house workshop on Customer Service and Communication conducted by

Shobha. The workshop was attended by 20 employees.

Bangalore� 5th: There was a session on Production Bug Management taken by Shradhanjali.

� 20th: there was a HR Thought Leader Summit conducted by Raise Global, SGSA India and SCT

� 27th: Madhukiran took a Techtonic session on Windows Server 2008.

Chennai� 30th: Python101 session taken by Sriram Murali as a supplement to the earlier conducted ML session. Most of

the idea testing of algorithms happens in either Python or Matlab/Octave, this session helped the attendees gain a

quick basic understanding of Python

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Vevek Pandian

Jayanth Gurijala, Dilip Kumar Gundu, Sreedhar Rao Puvvada, Saikat Roy, Shibulal Maniyan

Srinivas Anjaneya, Aadish Hussain

Vamsi Krishna Yalamanchili, Jagadeeshwaran Karupannan, Lalith Balasubramanian

Bhargavi Gunda

Balasubramanian Panneerselvan

Prasanta Kumar Lenka

Varun Sunandan, Mohammad Zakir Ameen

Johib Khan, Nayani Baba Sai Kiran, Anusha Joyline Lasrado

B.N.V. SomiNaidu, Yashashvi Chandra

Rituparna Parida, Naveen Subramanian

Martin Devapitchai

Preet Nilesh Shukla, Deepthi Darapureddi, Srikanth Reddy

Chitra Lal, Mahati Mahalakshmi Addanki

Vijay Rama Raju, Devender Gupta

Satish Salguti, Manjunath Rao

Sharad Singh Solanki, Jyothi Narasipuram, Chetan` L Shinde

Saurabh Rawat, Imtiyaz Md., Nagaraj V. Hubli

Prasanna Subramanian

Dhanesh Shyamsunder shastri

Aditya Palagummi

Risav Kumar Verma, Srikanth Vijay M, Ranjith Kumar N

Aaruna Godthi, Bijesh Purushan

Muralidaran M

Jahan Laskar

years at PramatiVamsi Krishna Yalamanchili 

Prudhvi Krishna Reddy Bondu

Avinash Reddy Duvvuru

Sathish Sundaram      

Hyderabad Chennai Bangalore

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