The joy of the journey
The software industry in India has really taken a toll on the IT employees. There have been plenty who are talking about exhaustion , retirement and moving out of the industry after 15+ years of hard experience. These are some of the stalwarts, greats who have done well for the IT service industry. The key reason has been that they have put in long midnight hours to bring a new project, work on bring the the projects into control and just executing this cycle with different pace, complexity and size but the cycle has been the same. When you take a step back at these instances, it is very evident that the industry will very soon take the exhaustion path unless we device a mechanism to bring in the joy of the IT journey at everything we do in IT. I have found less and less people who enjoy what they do, and always have a reason why they do not like what they do. The key is 'What is the joy factor of the Indian IT industry?'. Improving this is hard both individually and collectiv...