The Purple House: Doing Room - Episode 4

In the fourth Podcast episode of "The Purple House", Swami from the Indian village of Malgudi reflects on his eagerness to understand what is inside the Doing Room. Arun links the elements in the room -- Planning, Time Management and Balancing Priorities -- to how he and his team at Nucleus Software started planning to write software for an ATM machine for a bank in 1987. Despite not having seen the actual machine, they imagined how it would work and began creating a detailed plan. However, upon receiving the machines in October, they found that there were three different machines instead of the imagined two - one for embossing cards, one for encoding cards, and one for getting the money. This required a change in priorities and a reevaluation of the plan to accommodate the new reality, all while adhering to the unmovable deadline of launching the machines.

During the 26th Annual 'Can Do' Workshop held by Ullas Trust, Arun Jain, Chairman and Managing Director of Intellect, shared a story about a young boy named Swami who explored various rooms in a purple-coloured house in his village. The event took place in Chennai on September 30, 2023, and was attended by more than 1,100 students from Class IX in government and corporation schools.

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