Enterprises have been always concerned with the opportunities they offer for qualified people. But the question is, Do they look for geeks or good team players with excellent communications skills and fine academic aptitude?
Generally speaking, Computer/Techy geeks have been known for their limited and sometimes crippled social/presentation skills. They can’t leave the techie terms for any reason. And If you want a perfect mismatch, let the geek do a presentation for managers or salespersons… Trust me, It will crack you up!
On the other hand, the good team players or as I prefer to call “rounded employees” can deliberately get to the point with a polish and smooth speaking skills. I like those guys when it comes to a mission of information-delivery. I gotta admit, they’re really awesome!
One of my funniest moments, before six months ago, I had to present an introductory session on building an SOA framework for one of our partners. I did a lot of dry-runs before getting into that session. Fortunately, I had my toughest friend Alaa to play the audience role and he was fantastic on highlighting many weak areas in my presentation. Thanks Alaa!
But this wasn’t the end, I started that presentation perfectly on the first 15 minutes in a smooth and easy-to-understand language. I was proud of myself during those minutes of being a good speaker, the audience were shaking their heads in a harmony as an understanding sign, I was saying to myself “keep it up geeky speaky, those are your smashing moments”.
Afterwards, I didn’t know what actually happened, All what I remember is an inexplicable change in their faces which after awhile turned out into smiley faces. Sadly, I can feel what that really means “What the heck are you babbling about!”, I started to explain many techie areas in the Web-Services Stack within an SOA Framework. Finally, it went fine after all that hassle… At least from my perspective!
The bottom-line here is that if you’re looking for a geek, you have to fit him in the right working environment. It’s a resemblance of a sophisticated network topology. The geeks are the internal network, and the rounded employees are the perimeter network “DMZ zone”…
I still believe that employees can fit any where as long as there is a commitment for a challenging and promising environment. But what really matters is the best-fit recruitment which indicates that rounded staff are most likely to be a best-fit for enterprises, where geeks are struggling as freelancers “self-employed” or in a freelancing-alike environment “You’re right, It’s Google”.
Dear Geek
I have noticed that U R week in presentation skills. Not just that but u live behind a social barrier and you will not move beyond this barrier unless you visit this site on daily biases http://socialwonders.com/wp02/
frankly speaking, I was kidding. U don’t have any problem. Just do ur best as usual
regardless what is the area that u r talking about ( IT ,business, or statistics ) don’t expect non-subject matter expert to understand everything. Moreover, what u think axiom or trivial it may be more difficult than nuclear physics for other because the came from different back ground.
Keep up doing the best
@smartnet:
You know that I’m one of your enthusiastic fans!
I totally agree with you, people has diverse interests and more importantly a certain level of understanding. As a matter of fact, the speaker has to know first who the audience are. Consequently, he has to bundle a selective material that would leverage the people’s interest and knowledge.
Hi Geek,
I’m impressed by your blog. I came across searching for K2 Blackpearl on Google and came across your site and ended up reading every bit of information on your Blog. Very well written.
I work with one of the gold partners in bahrain and come across the same situation, infact I am MOSS Consultant and prior to working with this I was a Technical Lead for SharePoint in Microsoft, India.
Saleh I wanted to know if you know if BPM(Business Process Management) is an independent product or does it have to rely on a Product or Platform like SharePoint. While I have gathered information the two which I have found are K2 Blackpearl and Skelta.
Anyways I surely did like your blog and hope to interact with you…
Girish
@Girish,
Glad that you could find what you’re looking for…
However, BPM Solutions should have its own portal “workspace” to manage internal processes and work items. IMHO, this is a must! The customer shouldn’t be required to get other products to fulfill his requirements, rather, the solution has to be full-fledged enough to do so and to be capable of operating independently. Building a dynamic and rich business application is indeed an essential requirement. A portal “As a hosting-platform” can save you a lot of time and efforts. In my company, the end-user works seamlessly with processes that are related to his role/responsibility through portal’s webparts/portlets “and he doesn’t have a single idea about what is cooked behind the scene
”. Managers, stakeholders, knowledge/information workers and reviewers can use the workspace for more and advanced requirements “such as Reporting”.
The point here is that working with an independent workspace is great, but having a portal “most likely MOSS” for doing that is with no doubt the best way to go! A very simple scenario is dumping all completed work items “Business Process Instances” in a List within MOSS and building a KPI List accordingly.
K2BP is a BPM monster, not only because of the product itself, but rather in the talented people behind it. K2 Underground (http://www.k2underground.com) is one of the great resources to help you down the road for solving complicated scenarios. On the other hand, I’m not fully aware about Skelta but I had my first sight on it, and I can simply say it can do the job. K2BP is incredibly sophisticated. And as I said before, It’s helluva BPMS!
HTH,
-Saleh