A new version of a programmer is born

Kuttan Chatterji is retiring today 1st June 2065 from Software industry at the age of 65. Kutaan Chatterji's real name is Kuttan from Chittur in Kerala.He was born on February.15th 2000 His neighbours called him Chitturji. His friends combined it as Kuttan Chitturji. Gradually it became Kuttan Chatterji. Kuttan's cabin Overlooked the beautiful Marine Drive in Mumbai. One more time Kuttan gazed out through the window. Few drops of tear rolled down his cheeks.

Kuttan's Software Life cycle began at the age of 21 when he was recruited from the Calicut University Campus Recruitment. He Joined ABC Technologies in Mumbai. His software life PROJECT INTIATION cycle started in the Sprawling campus in Mumbai. He was Allocated as Resource to a Financial Project on Java Platform. No one asked him which Technology he wanted. Kuttan never questioned also as he was new. Deep in hearts he wanted to work in Oracle. In fact without his permission an Environment was set-up for Kuttan to work. Kuttan became an entry in one of the Project Management-MS Project tool. Now Kuttan had no control on himself, he was more like a project. His life is based on the Project Management Plan.

Kuttan was fun loving guy and also cooks very well. He wanted to spend some time in the evening playing, doing some social work or chatting with neighbourhood girls. Kuttan has a small group of friends who are his neighbours. They have taken up organising activities in the housing society where he was staying. Now these are getting curtailed as he has spend most of his evening at the office to please his Project Lead(PL). Otherwise someone else will please the Project Lead by washing his clothes. Office Colleagues were not friends anymore. They were Entries in Project Plan trying to outdo each other and biting behind the back.

A Risk Analysis of Kuttan was done in the next stage. He was given some training. His Bio-data was updated with fake projects to fool the clients. As a part of the Contingency plan Kuttan also had a Shadow. As the offices are fully lighted up no one has a shadow. So the management decided to have few persons shadowing the other team members. But the real Contingency plan is when something fails, arm twisting of the resources are done, made to sit late and sort it out. Rather than 8 hours Kuttan was forced to work for 12 to 13 hours. Kuttan realised that Project Planning in reality is threatening with no salary hike, no promotion and pleasing the Project Lead. Project Leads never retain Records of this. In books Project Lead is a good guy more interested in pleasing his Line manager by polishing his shoes. Problem Reporting is basically complaining against a team member who is a potential threat to the Project Lead or his pet. Kuttan was basically Monitored and Controlled. He is only a Module if the Company is considered a Software.

As a part of his Pre-Development appraisal for the year has to be done. New Ideas were identified. Potential Approaches for his Development was discovered. As a part of the Feasibility study mid-year reveiew will be done. The ideas and approaches were Refined to suit his Project Lead and Kuttan was put back in to the system as an Updated module. Kuttan never wanted to discuss to anyone about his Pre-development. But by the end of the 3rd year in the Company Kuttan got promoted as a version 2 Module. This did not bring much excitement to Kuttan.

Kuttan gradually became invisible during daylight. Kuttan's neighbour Sardar asked Him 'Chitturji Aree Wah Aap Bade Athmi ban gaye ' Aajkal Deekita be nahi'. Kuttan responded will talk to you later and went off. Kuttan had not even gone to his native place for 2.5 years. Kuttan's family in Chittur wanted him to come for few weeks. Finally Kuttan took off for Chittur for 3 weeks.

Three weeks in Chittur was refershing. He mets his family, his sister and brother. He wandered around with his friends. Watched few films. Everyone was given a treat for his new job. Kuttan met his soft-corner Anjali as well. The train journey back to Mumbai made him realise that he was a part of a bigger system and his company is only a small module in the bigger system. Kuttan was also under pressure to get married as well. He Analysed his functions and decided to integerate more in to the bigger software's System Architecture.

To be Continued....................