Importance of Skip level Management meeting in organization

By,
Prajakta

Skip level meeting. What is that?

           It's a kind of tool (interview process) for managers to build trust and know their team members, want to know exact thought process one or more level below. This helps managers to understand the real problems and an opportunity to work on them.

 

            Skip level meeting means omitting a particular individual or group form attending meetings. This is usually done to by seniors in case of confidential matters or any action to be initiated for any individual or group or some key business meetings where everyone is not required.

             Normally, managers who are managing more than 10 to 12 team members, and 10 to 12 project at a time, who are directly reporting to them while other team members report to project leads. Due to this hierarchical structure, team members may not get any opportunity to talk to managers to share their views on the project, company or management. To minimize this gap, managers should proactively schedule Skip level meetings with their team members.

Step 1:
Send a meeting invite in advance  to your team member (not to direct reports )  - a level or two below or one level below. Please do not try to schedule this meeting at 11th hour as she/he may not be ready.

Step 2:
Best meeting duration around 30 minutes.

Step 3:
Note that your team member may not have an experience of these types of meetings and may not be aware about the outcome of the same. As you are also trying to acknowledge your team members' thoughts about the project, company and also their satisfaction, dissatisfaction etc. explain the purpose of this meeting. Take them into confidence stating that all the discussions will be kept secret and their views won't be revealed.

Step 4:
Be supportive and patient. Try to motivate your team member to open up and share his/her views/ideas. Please do not relate any situation or comment personally or do not try to defend any comment.

Step 5:
Be a good listener. Talk less and aggravate your team member to talk more. Ask questions like -
1. Can you please elaborate that topic?
2. Oh? I was not aware.
3. Can you help me out to understand?

Step 6:
Focus your questions on areas like -
1. Biographical data
2. Project related views/ideas
3. Organization and management

Step 7:
Always use clear language . And ask question if required take notes wherever applicable.

Step 8:
Most important is to keep all the information secret. And take action wherever required.

LESS

By,
Karishma

What is LESS?
LESS is a CSS pre-processor that enables customizable, manageable and reusable style sheet for web site. LESS is a dynamic style sheet language that extends the capability of CSS. LESS is also cross browser friendly.

CSS Pre-processor is a scripting language that extends CSS and gets compiled into regular CSS syntax, so that it can be read by your web browser.It provides functionalities like variables, functions, mixins and operations that allow you to build dynamic CSS.

Why to use LESS? 
1.LESS supports creating cleaner, cross-browser friendly CSS faster and easier.

2.LESS is designed in JavaScript and also created to be used in live, which compiles faster than other CSS pre-processors.

3.LESS keeps your code in modular way which is really important by making it readable and easily changeable.

4.Faster maintenance can be achieved by the use of LESS variables.

Features:
1.Cleaner and more readable code can be written in an organized way.

2.We can define styles and it can be reused throughout the code.

3.LESS is based on JavaScript and is super set of CSS.

4.LESS is an agile tool that sorts out the problem of code redundancy.

Advantages: 
1.LESS easily generates CSS that works across the browsers.

2.LESS enables you to write cleaner and well organized code by using nesting.

3.Maintenance can be achieved faster by the use of variables.

4.LESS enables you to reuse the whole classes easily by referencing them in your rule sets.

5.LESS provides the use of operations that makes coding faster and saves time.
 
System Requirements for LESS:
1.Operating System : Cross-platform

2.Browser Support: IE (Internet Explorer 8+), Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari.

Installation of LESS: 
Step1:We need NodeJs to run LESS code. To download NodeJs, open the link https://nodejs.org/en/, you will see a page as shown below:

Download the Latest Features version:  
Step2:Now, run the setup to install the Node.js on your system.

Step3:Now, install LESS on the server via Node package manager(NPM). Run the following command into the command prompt.

npm install -g less

Step4: After successful installation of LESS, you will see following result on the command prompt

`-- less@2.6.1

  +-- errno@0.1.4

  | `-- prr@0.0.0

  +-- graceful-fs@4.1.3

  +-- image-size@0.4.0

  +-- mime@1.3.4

  +-- mkdirp@0.5.1

  | `-- minimist@0.0.8

  +-- promise@7.1.1

  | `-- asap@2.0.3

  +-- request@2.69.0

  | +-- aws-sign2@0.6.0

  | +-- aws4@1.3.2

  | | `-- lru-cache@4.0.0

  | |   +-- pseudomap@1.0.2

  | |   `-- yallist@2.0.0

  | +-- bl@1.0.3

  | | `-- readable-stream@2.0.6

  | |   +-- core-util-is@1.0.2

  | |   +-- inherits@2.0.1

  | |   +-- isarray@1.0.0

  | |   +-- process-nextick-args@1.0.6

  | |   +-- string_decoder@0.10.31

  | |   `-- util-deprecate@1.0.2

  | +-- caseless@0.11.0

  | +-- combined-stream@1.0.5

  | | `-- delayed-stream@1.0.0

  | +-- extend@3.0.0

  | +-- forever-agent@0.6.1

  | +-- form-data@1.0.0-rc4

  | | `-- async@1.5.2

  | +-- har-validator@2.0.6

  | | +-- chalk@1.1.1

  | | | +-- ansi-styles@2.2.0

  | | | | `-- color-convert@1.0.0

  | | | +-- escape-string-regexp@1.0.5

  | | | +-- has-ansi@2.0.0

  | | | | `-- ansi-regex@2.0.0

  | | | +-- strip-ansi@3.0.1

  | | | `-- supports-color@2.0.0

  | | +-- commander@2.9.0

  | | | `-- graceful-readlink@1.0.1

  | | +-- is-my-json-valid@2.13.1

  | | | +-- generate-function@2.0.0

  | | | +-- generate-object-property@1.2.0

  | | | | `-- is-property@1.0.2

  | | | +-- jsonpointer@2.0.0

  | | | `-- xtend@4.0.1

  | | `-- pinkie-promise@2.0.0

  | |   `-- pinkie@2.0.4

  | +-- hawk@3.1.3

  | | +-- boom@2.10.1

  | | +-- cryptiles@2.0.5

  | | +-- hoek@2.16.3

  | | `-- sntp@1.0.9

  | +-- http-signature@1.1.1

  | | +-- assert-plus@0.2.0

  | | +-- jsprim@1.2.2

  | | | +-- extsprintf@1.0.2

  | | | +-- json-schema@0.2.2

  | | | `-- verror@1.3.6

  | | `-- sshpk@1.7.4

  | |   +-- asn1@0.2.3

  | |   +-- dashdash@1.13.0

  | |   | `-- assert-plus@1.0.0

  | |   +-- ecc-jsbn@0.1.1

  | |   +-- jodid25519@1.0.2

  | |   +-- jsbn@0.1.0

  | |   `-- tweetnacl@0.14.1

  | +-- is-typedarray@1.0.0

  | +-- isstream@0.1.2

  | +-- json-stringify-safe@5.0.1

  | +-- mime-types@2.1.10

  | | `-- mime-db@1.22.0

  | +-- node-uuid@1.4.7

  | +-- oauth-sign@0.8.1

  | +-- qs@6.0.2

  | +-- stringstream@0.0.5

  | +-- tough-cookie@2.2.2

  | `-- tunnel-agent@0.4.2

  `-- source-map@0.5.3

Create a new project using NetBeans IDE

By,

Ashwini

 

This document will cover the steps to create a new project, learn the different parts of the IDE and learn how to create code in NetBeans. We will code a simple program to demonstrate this.

 

1) Select File > New Project from the menu at the top.

2) At the New Project screen, select JAVA for Category and Java Application for  the Project and click the "Next" button.

3) Name the project "Demo_Example" and when you are done, click the “Finish” button.

 

 

4) Program is as follow:

 /*

 * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates

 * and open the template in the editor.

 */

 package demo_example;

 /**

 *

 * @author PRASAD

 */

 public class Demo_Example

 {

  /**

   * @param args the command line arguments

  */

  public static void main(String[] args) 

  {

  // TODO code application logic here

  System.out.println("Shree Ganesha...!");

  }

 }

 

5) Output is displayed at the bottom of screen: