Events of yesterday spurred up my writing genes and I am back with the second last entry to the series 10 things I miss about AIRBUS ODC. When the series was in its nascent state I had noted down all the things I missed in a notepad but, the spot 1 and 2 was left blank as it was my instinct that I wanted to project not the prepared speech delivery.
Before even beginning to sound like a developer let me give a brief description on how the spot 2 was found from a trivial affair.
Status meetings: I received a mail from Gurgaon yesterday regarding the weekly status meeting which goes something like this "1 week since we have chatted and shared our ideas .Let's meet @ 11:30 today”. Such an informal invitation to a status meeting. What happens in the meeting is even more fun cross talks, mute talks, play talks, official talks I mean we cover every aspect of the word "TALK". This set me thinking……..
If there is anything I miss about AIRBUS it gotta be the 10:00 am Status meeting. A time when random rumblings became words of wisdom, ideas meant more headache to developers, bowed brows of manager meant trouble.
The time was odd, with most of the late birdies nearly missing the status meeting or early birdies missing out on the long tea breaks. The venue was the usual Airbus meeting room, sparsely decorated with a white board a conference desk for managers and few chairs.
I have some very good dreams associated with the white board, dreams specifically cause I would be half asleep most of the time Raj(Archi) had tried to induce some System wisdom into our heads. I would just dream away.....screeching halt to diverting subject. Lets just concentrate on topic at hand...see this is exactly what happens back behind the closed doors....the manager starts with one topic and after 15 minutes of never ending negotiation all of us would be arguing on a very different topic , deviating from the agenda.
OVER INFLATED OPTIMISM
Every manager would like to hear the golden word "DONE" from his subordinates so, he/she can mark the excel sheet row as done , shining in the colour RED .What happens is…. a task 50%-60%-80% completed is DONE for the manager .No one ever thinks of the left 50%-40%-20%, net effect under estimation of efforts.
ANGRY BIRDS
The meeting is not short of drama, the above mentioned over inflated optimism triggers angry bird symptom in many, refusing to accept the short deadlines, questioning the way things are done, giving others a reality check. But, their whole sincere effort is utter waste , this can be clearly seen in the next meeting .
NOD-O-NOD
Some of the mates are NOD-O-NODS....
MANAGER: can you do this within a day
PERSON: NOD
MANAGER: can you give your 20% effort to x, 40% effort to Y ...we still got your some part left
PERSON: NOD
MANAGER:????
PERSON: NOD
See these are super humans one who can multitask and they are the most dangerous one's ….they gives the manager an impression all of us are there for partying while, they are working hard.
DEAD-DYING-DIED
Some like me don't even bother to react to all the chaos in the room. Conveniently seated in an elevated altitude, we are keepers of all the happenings, never to get involved in any of the above said activities. We call ourselves DEAD community. The ones who do all the drone work, ones who don't have any right to speak up, ones who cannot say NO.YES , that's people like US.
SARCASTIC SMILIE
Of many smiles that fill the glass doors, SARCASTIC SMILIE is the best to watch. The over inflated optimism when triggered gives an allergic reaction to some WISE people or realists who are yet another branched out species sharing the same branch as ANGRY BIRDS but, unlike them never picks up a fight. They keep their roots grounded and they speak through brain waves
MANAGER: can you get this work done by today?
SMILIE(through brain waves) :KEEP ON WISHING!!!IN YOUR DREAMS :)
After all the drama when all of us come out of the room, nothing would have been achieved not the target, not the tasks just plain waste of an hour when one could have gone out and had some hot piping tea. I so miss the daily status meeting filled with all the drama unlike the fun filled ones in NSN.
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