Kartavya
cc:
Abhi / Sanjeev / Nimit
Date:
07-11-03 (Friday)
Pages: 1/2
– 2/2
Earlier
References
- Flight
Deck Folder dated 29-09-03 (Containing User Interface)
- My
note dated 07-10-03 (Outsource + Recruitguru Consoles)
- Our
meeting (software) to discuss major / minor improvements to Gumline /
Consoles + common features.
- Handwritten
note given to Abhi for scoring / ranking of priorities.
I
appreciate that the tech team was very last week trying to solve the problem of
MACRO (freeze), hence:
- Prioritize
pending work.
- Prepare
a timeframe / project-plan based on resources available.
Password
Circulation
User
IDs to 66 companies will get sent next week, followed by an email
circular to 1000 placement agencies by end of next week (as soon as
Rajiv has finalized auto-server ID / password).
This
means 66 companies will complete their Free Trial periods by 8 Dec.
By
that date, Recruitguru has to be ready at any cost to be able to:
- Permit
subscribers to tick / select transactions of their choice.
- Enable
subscribers to make online payments (in case of Credit Card / Payment
Gateway)
OR
Make online entry of cheque No / DD No and send cheque / DD thru courier along with a print-out of that page / email.
To
ensure that this happens by 8 Dec, enclosed from my brief proposal /
plan for completion of software development with some tentative dates.
Given
the 8 Dec deadline, we have to plan backward — we do not have the option
of shifting that date!
If
required, tech team must work over weekends too to strictly adhere to the
targets mentioned in enclosed Gantt chart.
While
others are working on these, you may prepare Project Plan for Phase 3,
viz.:
- Recruitguru
+ Flight Deck
- Major
/ Minor Improvements ? (My notes with Abhi)
- Common
Features
(signed
– 07-11-03)
Kartavya
cc:
Abhi / Sanjeev / Nimit
Date:
7-10-03
{URGENT}
FLIGHT
DECKS
(Subscriber
& Recruitguru Consoles)
- Please
refer to my notes dated 28/09 and 29/09, enclosing 14 +
14 screens (U.I.)
- See
enclosed chart. I request you to fill in the “Target Deployment Dates”
on this chart for each screen and return a copy for my record by tomorrow.
- Assuming
that the free trial period (of 30 days) for 58 agencies starts
next Monday — Oct. 13 — there is imperative need to ensure U.I.s
are deployed latest by Nov. 13.
Apart
from these, other urgent items for quick deployment are:
- Home
Page Counter
- Space
for Accuracy Graphs
- Feature
for Subscriber to Re-name / Re-edit extracted resumes (in batch mode)
- Candidates
to EDIT / UPLOAD directly into respective PRIVATE databases
- Replacement
of TOP part of ImageBuilder with subscriber’s own Name / Logo
(Signed
with short check mark)
FLIGHT
DECK
28-Sep-2003
FLIGHT
DECK
Enclosed
find my proposal for subscriber flight deck
· Recruitguru
flight deck
· Neither
the lists, nor the contents of various UIs, are comprehensive / final.
· As time goes, we will need to add some
more.
· Even
now, you are welcome to add/ delete/ edit/ modify/ combine, if you feel t hat
such changes would make a subscriber's life easy
·
Making a subscriber's life "simple / easy/ uncomplicated/
institutive" is an important goal.
· But
we have to make a beginning & present to the subscribers, a few UI screens
- then ask their feedback. In 6 months time we will have enough feedback to go
back and improve.
· In
the meantime we have next 28 days to design / develop/ deploy, enclosed 28 UIs!
· We
have to do this before the 30 days free trial period runs out on the first
batch of 58 companies who have registered.
· There
are some UIs which they will need immediately upon completion of free trial
period. I have marked these (H) / High Priority to be taken up completed fast.
· Similarly,
for us also there are some UIs which are top - priority since we want to
capture the "Transaction - usage" statistics, during the free - trial
period (from day one of launch).
Then
only we can
· Know
"price of promotion" (Subscriber wise)
· Predict
who we can persuade to become a regular subscriber (based on free trial period
usage)
· Work
- out the "Server - Load" & fine tuning
· Long
before free trial period gets over (say by oct, 30), our payment gateway must
become operational to accept credit - card payments.
· No
web service can exist without this option.
· But
at the same time, we know that almost all the Indian Companies would prefer to
make payments thru cheque /DD, which they will send to us thru courier (- I
have forgotten to incorporate this instruction - do).
· Even
then, a subscriber MUST enter these details ONLINE in subscription - Form
(-even if Sanjeev is sitting in front of the client).
· This
is our only capturing - screen to capture all types of payments.
· But
when cheques/ DD are received & deposited in Recruitguru a/c in saraswat
Bank, by Asuthosh, there has to be on OFFLINE/ BACKEND,re - conciliation with
what the subscriber has filled up ONLINE in the subscription payment form.
Please evolve a mechanism, with help of Asutosh
Remember
- Some cheques will
· Not
get couriered
· Get
lost on the way
· Get
rejected due to errors
· Bounce
(funds to available) etc...
· There
must be a mechanism to STOP the services in such cases (-unless we say, we will
NOT activate the service in the first place itself unless cheque is realised).
· May
be initially, we need to take such a stand.
But, in any case RECONCILIATION - MECHANISM is a must because,
· One
part of the process is ONLINE
· Second
part of the process is OFFLINE and human - intervention becomes necessary
I
wish to repeat what I have repeatedly said in the past, viz
· "Despite
a fantastic product and a huge waiting market and a fabulous Marketing team and
wonderful technical support,
· A
company can - and will - go BUST, if it does not have in place, right from the
beginning, an idrotproo BILLING/ ACCOUNTING/ RECOVERY Mechanism.
· Without
aforementioned "Reconciliation" (between ONLINE data & OFFLINE
data), when I look up statement # 4 (Subscription Received - cash Flow), I may
feel very happy that, right from launch date till today, between all
subscribers (i.e. all subscribers put together), I have received ONLINE
payments, amounting to Rs. 1 core & 53 Lakhs.
· Whereas,
my Recruitguru Saraswat Bank A/C passbook shows, a cumulative deposit of Rs. 93
Lakhs only!
· That
would be a disaster! Remember - whatever can go wrong - will go wrong! so
anticipate & provide for every human
· So,
in Recruitguru ADMIN CONSOLE, I would like you to develop, with help from
Asutosh, a
· "UN
- RECONCILED PAYMENT STATEMENT", in which,
I
should be able to look up all un - reconciled payment, every day, along with
all details, including "Age / Period" for which a particular payment
is remaining un - reconciled.
· This
would be quite like an CUSTOMER OUTSTANDING statement, which can be rearrange
at will
- by
period / duration for which outstanding (reverse chronological)
OR
- by
magnitude of "Amount Outstanding" (In descending order)
Obviously,
· Rs.
5 lakh outstanding for 5 days,
· is
fare more important than,
· Rs,
500/= outstanding for 5 years
Now
let us get cracking!!
P.S.
· Consider
asking following links on homepage
· Log
in
· How
to Subscribe
· Fight
Deck
(This
is to arouse curiosity of visitors to click & see)
· As
far as Subscriber's Fight Deck is concerned, it is essential that any casual
visitor is able to click on any of those 14 links and is able to see the TABLES
/ User Interfaces drawn by me.
· This
alone can convince him, why he should subscribe to Recruitguru ! what he will
get to see will be BLANK tables - without any data (or we may even consider
filling in some fictitious data to appear absolutely genuine!)
· But,
when a regular subscriber clicks on any of these 14 links, he would / should do
so, after entering user ID/Password in LOG - IN. This will ensure that he will
get to see each UI with his own data already filled - in
HEMEN
PAREKH
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