People are ‘resource’
in IT industry – and we spent such a huge time in this industry managing the ‘resources’ - skill grows obsolete everyday; what we have
customer do not need ; what they need we do not have. And we apply our creative minds to devise
state-of-the-art solution to tackle this ‘unique’ challenge. …
Let us take
a detour from IT landscape to the neighborhood fruits and vegetables markets.
What do we see – piles of Tomatoes,
Mangoes and so on and on. Why don’t we zoom in to the Mangoes. Pluck them early
– they are too green and sour [‘too
juniors – academic knowledge of Java’].
Then they are ‘just right’ and ‘ripe and sweet ‘ [‘Ajax,
Hibernate,Spring’ peppered in the
resume] .In couple of days , they are rotten [‘obsolete skills’]. And before they
rot, you better use them for making
Pickles or Packaged Drinks [‘re-skill’
and ‘Up-skill’].
By the way,
you can also watch the buyers. Someone going vendor to vendor to look for the ‘best
price’ [‘cost conscious’ client], someone ‘smelling’ 20 mangoes before picking the two [‘staff
augmentation’] ; and some people [like me! ] just go to the known seller
and ask him to give ‘good ones’ [‘preferred
vendor’].
So next time we grapple with ‘resource supply and
surplus’, may be we can borrow some
ideas of perishable commodity management
from our fruit-sellers!
The author is in a leadership position in a global IT
company. The opinions expressed here are purely based on personal capacity.
