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John Wick 4 - Recreated

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John Wick speaks German, French, Japanese, Russian so why not a couple of Indian languages too? In a parallel universe -- John Wick's fight sequence on his way to the dual combat at the church..... John shoots, fights, kills, gets in the car, breaks car door, windshield, drives fast through Paris .. Amateur rogues shooting at him. A Karnataka traffic cop pulls up near John's car. "License and registration please", says the cop. "Dude, people are shooting at me", shouts John. "Not my problem. License?" John produces a license. "Not for the gun! Your driving license!" shouts the cop. John stares.  "500 for absence of license. 800 for driving on the wrong side of the road". John shields himself. Cop yells, "Cease Fire!". Everyone stops shooting at John.   Cop continues, "1000 for driving over the speed limit. 500 for not wearing seat belt." Cop takes a pencil and a notebook from pocket to bill it. John looks at

'Agile' Wife

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Agile means division of tasks and adapting to change in the plans. You will see the irony in the concept conflated here, in a minute. Let's consider our common woman, rather a common wife found next door and draw an analogy to the agile process that is followed almost in every project in all the companies around the world. For the sake of this analogy and respect to all grandmothers, great grandmothers and some mothers in previous generation, I have not considered the Agile Wife as a working woman here. You can extrapolate that scenario from this one and empathize if you are a human being. For those of you who are not familiar with Agile concept, here is a synopsis. A product is broken into stories by means of requirements, requirement is analyzed and refined by a team, assigned story point complexity, developed by another team, time and efforts vary based on the complexity, tested by another team, fixed and retested for quality, rerun many times and then demoed to stakeholders in