Go for it! and then adapt

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This story is from 2005. I was less than a year out of college and working at Hewlett-Packard in India on the HP OpenView team. Among other things, I was assigned as the junior engineer to work on Application Response Measurement (ARM) standard based offerings from OpenView.

We had a request from the sales team in Taiwan to help close a multi-million dollar sales deal, by giving the customer training on our ARM…