I read an interesting article "The Dilemma facing software professionals in this economic climate : To specialize or genearlize"
The author basically took a middle approach to take advantage of both these skills...but I have a different feel for this altogther
Here is why ....
In this era of globalization , we certainly need to be "Slow" and "Master" the art of one skill.Its a kind of reverse engineering which we have to apply to beat the competition .Say for ex: Many software engineers tend to work on many projects , many skills , many people.....Note the word "Many"
What has happened is ,over a period of time we have developed an army of Software engineers who possess "Many" attributes with less capabilities.But if you really want to stand out of this crowd , you need to have that "Few" attributes which these guys lack . And if you observe closely , what they do lack is " Specialization " and "Slowness" to think through the problem
So who ever gets this gets to the top :)
So in effect " We should always try and go upstream than downstream"
Only challenge would be to identify that path of upstream . but once you know , you rule !!!
make sense ?
let me know
1 comment:
Here is a different perspective my manager told me.....
I would say that both need to be existing for us to be successful in Indian Context.This will help you to balance between business and specialization.
You should have the skill to pick you some activities and complete them in time bound fashion where you may not need to do extensive work. At the same time, you should be the master of your area.
I have seen that for want of SPECIALIZATION, people loose on flexibility.
For want of FLEXIBILITY, people loose our on SPECIALIZATION.
The one who can master this balance is the one in WANT - difficult proposition to meet.
Take Indian context:
=> We do not occupy the core area of business decision. So the need for SPECIALIZATION was less in the past.
If we move on to dominate the business decision making, there by the need to be more SPECIALIZED is met.
=> We do not see Product management role in India a big way
=> India was looked upon for LOW cost destination.
It is the balance between ASPIRATION and OPPORTUNITY.
cheers
tanigai
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