tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22586791.post-1143520981484028892006-03-27T20:08:00.000-08:002006-10-17T21:49:01.827-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Is "Change" that Hard</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Last weekend i took my 1 year old daughter to swimming pool (was her first time at the pool). She was in the pool sitting in a floater. She started paddling her legs and flapping her arms with in no time. I was amazed seeing that. kids have such an inherent ability to adapt and learn, its just so opposite of us (adults). Above narration is a preamble to what i started thinking in the pool.<br /> I work for a startup product company which is doing fairly well. We are at a stage where management wants to invest money in product development. Initially they were behind revenues, (this is the case with any startup, else they will go belly up) which has led the product to such chaos that its impossible to manage now. We had Product strategy meeting in Delhi last week to come up with a plan to make the product manageable. What i observed is listed below.<br /><br /></span><ol><li><span style="font-size:85%;"> Resistance to change: When i was trying to explain some of the aspects of agile, lot of them were skeptical, especially people on whom organization is dependent on. I was trying to convince them that distributed development can be done with less pains using some of the aspects of agile. Resistance was from people who are considered as extremely important in the organization today. Since i termed them as bottle necks they were offended but sincerely when i think, they are bottlenecks.<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">Knowledge Transfer: Delhi office was started before bangalore office, naturally they have more domain knowledge than people in bangalore. Delhi public dont want to transfer knowledge, may be because they are scared of loosing their job. This is probably due to management not updating the people about organizational goal or people we have are so incompetent that they are scared of being laid off.</span></li></ol><span style="font-size:85%;">Both of the above mentioned observations are not good for a growing organization.<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I was wondering looking at my daughter, why dont adults like us have what a 1 year old has?</span><br /></span>Knoreply@blogger.com