Be Ready and Be Suitable

What is Suitable? There is one proverb that says all that is white is not milk. The iceberg is deeper below the sea than what meets the eye.

There is another that says that suitable is how you define it. One has to adjust to become suitable. We can make a perfectly logical argument hazy by bringing is perfectly reasonable sayings....but would we need a mirror to see the wound on the palms.

...again examples for life apply to it's constituents, what is relevant for the esoteric is relevant for the real too...like say IT projects.

At a philosophic level every body can do everything, after all the boundaries are defined by us but that is for the future, the current should be well defined particularly when the problem is known. What we have on hand is what we have what we do not is what will cause us pain. We need to define boundaries for the needs and assess how to bridge it?

The most important thing that one needs to do is constantly learn so that when an opportunity comes one is there to help and make oneself useful. It is what we offer to make life simpler and not what we get out of an opportunity. If there are things that needs to be learned so be it, we can cross a stream but we cannot build a boat to cross the seas a day before the travel. We cannot start arms practicing during the War - we cannot do 'Yuddha Kale Shastrabhyasa!'

An IT infrastructure is simple but critical - particularly when applied to mission critical applications like Banking - but one has to have a deep understanding of the fundamentals. A person playing with toy gun cannot lead a war let along participate in it. There could be hierarchies and escalation paths for resolving the unknown but the person who does not know the concept or feels it  is not in his or her scope of learning is irrelevant and if involved in the project a pure nuisance. All lies will eventually get caught.

The next important thing is professionalism, not in the conventional sense that is taught in management classes but just to the extent of being reliable. This is independant of the sourroundings and is a reflection of integrity. Integrity comes out in program code and can be caught in code reviews, in the quality of comments, quality of defining the scenario and if probed a litte more than normal in the articulation of a solution.

In my opinion suitability cannot be faked for long. In the short haul however all involved will struggle.

I am writing this as an observation of a situation. There are solutions and most problems can be solved but better solve it before than later.