The curious case of Subba Rao ( A Project Manager ) :
On one
fine day a huge client decided to give a huge project to our huge MNC . SDM
jack salmon wanted to have an experienced project manager to handle this
prestigious customer . He wanted an project Manager of 11 years experience in
this new technology which came to market just 5 years back . Here comes the role of Subba Rao – a curious
project manager . Subba rao went through the internal requirement while
checking the blog . Project Manager role seemed good and subbarao looked at 11 years
exp . Subbu qick went on a ride on his old bicycle into his long years of experience , ofcourse he had that . 3 years
experience as field support (disguised
as Hardware support ) , 2 years experience as voice support ( disguised as Customer
relationship Manager ) further 2 more years on transition as another huge MNC
happened to buy Subbu’s company ( so he appointed himself as transition Manager
) and then 2 more years understanding
what do in the new company sitting on bench( Well this is projected as Business
analyst ) and finally 2 more years as first line support for some reporting
stuff only that god understands , so overall its 11 years . Subbu thought , since he had 11 years exp , he wanted to
give a shot and applied to it . Subbu wanted to learn this new technology in 15
days before interview. Owing to pressure from his wife he ends spending 13days as
usual . So he quickly googles up this technology and remembers 10 keyword. SDM
jack looked at experience and asks few questions considering the fact that
subbu is the only applicant. Our subbu fresh from google knowledge, ushers
these 10 words and boasts of 11 years exp and finally much to the fate of customer he is
appointed as project Manager . Then starts cursing the customer for giving this
project and deadlines. He decided to hire an engineer with 3 years experience
in this domain. He wonders how could this young geek manage to get same salary
as his vast 11 years exp job, covering that he wants him . He wants a team, so
he picks up some ten more guys sitting on the bench all a campus grads. He
expects them to be indebted to him for the rest of their lives for giving
opportunity . Much to his shock, all the boys in the team concentrate on
playing games in the company and girls concentrated on finding matching
accessories for these attires. Finally, the deadline for the project has come
up and subbu got nothing but his 11 years experience of mastering nothing. He
first bullies his domain expert and starts taking happiness out of the other
team members trying to understand the output of the project. Finally, the
product is released and sent to customer. Customer gets shocked looking at the
half working product and questions our subbu . Our subbu blames the
non-functionality on the old version of the tool and informs customer that
newer version has better features. the hapless and poor customer gives the new
project to enhance the functionality to again to our MNC . Subbu gets promoted
as senior project manager for the success of his previous project and you know
what subbu starts doing.
Another
search for another SUBBU begins ..!
: By Manoj Kumar Matala
