March, 2006

Complain and Fail or Resolve and Succeed!!!

I still seem to not have overcome the tragerdy or failure of my first project . Yes sad indeed and as the saying emphasizes “Life must go on”, cannot seem to follow it. I seem to have scrutinized every single aspect of that project – from my lack of knowledge of the technologies involved, the learning curve of business analysis and the fact that it was my first project, but i think i got the overall picture of why I failed.

I failed because I complained and complained but never really took time out to resolve the issues at hand or well didnt really give 100% to it. When I look back on the days at the client site, I always seem to remember how much crap i spoke about the business managers there or still continue to speak about. What i should have realized was that they are business managers and my role there was to try and resolve their issues instead of acting as the prosecutor. I would look at a task at hand and usually try to scrutinze it which i think is fine but that usually led to me not understanding the problem at hand and making it even bigger.

Then what happened….

The other day, I was thinking about my current project and tried to pinpoint the problems and well i thought i will keep it to myself. Seemed to have benefited because i started to try and resolve some of them through constructive conversations. This led to well work being done faster, more recognition and also a greater harmony among team members because no one was COMPLAINING!!!! Thus we were getting SHIT done!!!!

So Conclusion …

We dont have to criticise everything i suppose and even if we do, well maybe we can try to resolve it ourself if we see it as a problem, and mention the solution after mentioning the issue at hand. Seems to work out better in the end.

The concept of “making a change”

Individuals, they say either think they are the product of Satan or Christ. I used to think that way too for some odd reason, till i realized that well everyone else feels the same way too. . Everyone from a young age also feel like that they have to make a change, like since they are the product of Satan or Christ, that they have to do something big and write their names in history. I used to think that way too, till I realized that things need to be done in a smart way rather than the hard way sometimes. I used to think that making a change would be to eradicate Sri Lanka of all corruption, or maybe even running for Presidency to end the civil war – very FOOLISH THINKING!!! – YES , but hey i was reaching for the skies so that i can atleast touch the treetops.

So my course of action in making a change has currently come under great scrutiny by myself. No more changing the country and no more fasts to end civil war. The new concept that i am theorizing, and well great scholars have already put this in words but i just found out last night { }, is to do something small and effective. The niche projects you can call them if you are a techy. We cant change the country, that would be like building the next Windows and taking over the OS market. But what we can do is make plug-ins for the current OS so that it well has say better secutiry features and like wise, in our generation or the next, we will not be able to solve all the problems of the world, but what we can do is make a small imapct, maybe get up in the morning tomorrow and teach a kid how to use the computer, or chat with some young school kid about the essentials of a good education and or maybe even why he/she should dream BIG!!!