It is here. 2009. And as always, it is filled with expectations.
Well begun is half done.
So I created 14 issues in Carbon Jira this morning. And became the lucky one to create the issue number 2000.
People usually expect a new year to be more prosperous and a better one than the last year. They often make plans. But most of the people would say, the plans did not work out and not everything went well when they reach the end of the year. In a way it is good, to have some hopes and some fresh energy with a new year. However, it a must to realize that plans never work but planning does. In other words, it is not good enough to have a plan only at the beginning of the year. Rather you should have a plan to renew plans throughout the year. Also, you have to have set the stage last year, for this years plan to succeed. If you did not do proper plans last year, you cannot expect your new year's plans to succeed out of the blue this new year. Now, do not worry, if you did not have any plans last year, at least it is good that you have a new year now, so start now for so that you would be ready by next year.
As for WSO2, the right stage has been set for a prosperous 2009, thanks to the Carbon push we had towards the end of 2008. By mid 2009, we would have one of the most stable, unified, flexible, agile and robust middleware platforms that the enterprise have ever seen. With the economic crisis that the world is facing right now, I am sure that a considerable number of enterprises would embrace WSO2 middleware platform by the end of 2009.
People say, the only way to get out of the economic crisis that was faced in 2008 is to work harder in 2009. Well, in the last three months of 2008, WSO2 folks already did that. 18 hours per day was average. There were at least three occurrences where I only slept 2 hours and got back to work. And thanks to all those hard work, we would have more time this year to relax and innovate. Because, hard working must always be backed up with innovation.
As for the plans for 2009, I think one of the key things that we should focus is productivity. If we can cut down time spent on routine stuff through simple productivity tips, then we would have more time to relax and innovate. From simple things like using home and end keys on the keyboard, instead of keep on pressing the left and right arrow keys to advanced stuff like formatting the code in proper fashion needs to be addressed. I think we should make our folks pursue "in search of productivity".
The other thing is to move from 'I did it my way' to 'we did it our way'. That is what Carbon was all about. But we need to build on that.
Then to focus on quality. Quality as in "fit for purpose", and not necessarily being "technically superior".
There are many things that I learnt during the past few months, working with Carbon team side by side. I would write about those time to time. But the most important one is that plans never work, but still planning is a must. And the other important aspect is that, you should get down to the ground and work on the fields to realize the real difficulties of those who are working on stuff. It is so easy to rationalize how something might have been done, and question why it was not done the right way. However, most of those rationales get blown up once you are on your feet doing the task on the ground. On the other hand, when you are on the ground with others, you know it yourself, and others cannot fool you; no more fairy tales possible. Nothing is as real as knowing the reality for real.
May 2009 be the year that all realize the realities.
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