As I look at pictures of moments cherished in celebrating
the success of CMMI, I feel that it was perhaps fake expression of emotions by
everyone …was it? But some were truly feeling happy and was I one of them? No…I
was not one of them who felt excited with the success since I knew this
success will die as soon as the day ends "today". As the days passed, as expected
the huge card bungalow of CMMI fell with a blow of wind of divestment. No one
seemed surprised or shocked as if they already knew the destiny.
But what wonders me is the question "would we have spent so much of money
from our pocket to make this project success knowing its fate?" I am sure 3
million rupees for an individual means a lot. Yet we spend the money on making a project look successful on "paper". But when everyone around knew
that this will not sustain, expenses were still incurred till the end of the
project. And now when we have CMMI which stands invalid no one is willing to talk
about why did we buy it in the first place? Were we driven by our own agenda,
our own unit agenda or our own organization agenda?
Now that we are moving towards projectized organization,
this is an example of successful project. On time, on budget and on schedule
with complete objectives met. This is true successful project but I think where
we have failed is long term objective and benefits. The answer to the simple
questions “who will benefit out of this initiative” was never
asked..deliberately..I don’t know if it was deliberate. So delivering successful project means
successful organization? Not at all…the project failed on real values of
“Loyalty” When I say “Loyalty” in the true sense it means that we failed to be
loyal with our organization. We were afraid of telling the truth or even facing
the truth. We were afraid (not sure afraid but deliberately ignored) asking the
right questions like “what is the future?”
So unless employees become loyal and fearless about
declaring their project as “failed”, we can never stop the death march
