What no one told you needs to be added in Tech.
When you get curious about what skills are needed most in tech, you often get this.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Machine learning.
- User experience (UX).
- Cloud computing.
- Cybersecurity analytics.
- Data science and analytics.
- Software development.
Find out this secret today…
We will experience a huge adoption of tech solutions in all sectors across The world, more specifically in Africa in the coming years. And no, we won’t have a low scarcity of labour there is a likelihood there would be so many skilled talents, data scientists and analysts, GIS developers, software engineers, Blockchain developers, product designers name it, we would have a lot of us on available and capable to take up this jobs.
What then would be missing? This is based on experience from observations, practical and questioning.
In 2020 we all witnessed a lot of changes, positive and unsatisfying, but collectively as a nation we witnessed growth in tech talent, more engineers built themselves more developers also more User interface and experience experts. Still, we didn’t hear much about those who manage this skill set, those who foster partnerships, those who sell, and those who market, oh yes yes, I am aware we had more influencers come to the limelight also. but with what mindset and methodology, in wrap how many are they? how do they serve? and who defines who is to be served and how they are to be served.
A business founder has called an engineer to share his new idea and how he would love it to be built, the engineer tells the founder at the end of the meeting, oh yeah this is great! but I would love for us to bring a UI/UX designer on board to help design a wireframe and from there we can go on to put the screens together in an interactive and interesting interface while I worry about how to bring the interface to live…. what happens next?
Does this founder have the fundamental knowledge that will guide him to know how valuable these skill sets are? is the timeframe for the project randomly decided by the founder or the collaboration of the founder and the team? Is the team trained to be able to relate realistically and with an agile attitude with the founder? can the team come up with a story out of the problem statement to guide to bring about specificity and get them a definition of done?
Only in rare cases will you get positive answers to the questions.
Now I believe this makes sense to me, so we are empowering ourselves with creative and engineering knowledge to increase productivity in our immediate environment, the question is, who creates the employment?
Who manages the timeline?
Who manages the build process?
Who does the thinking, the mapping?
Who pushes the product to the market?
Who relates with the clients and the development team on their terms?
Who does the research to know if the product is what the customers know they need or what the product owner knows would be adopted?
It is a lot more, Who, What, How.
In the end, we see more amazing products with the “next big thing” as a motto, but 90% engineering team and 10% contains on the employer who wants to take it all up.
Taking it all up isn’t a bad idea, the bad idea is not educating more people on roles in the tech space that may not be in demand because the demands are not been promoted as much as others are, I mean if you educate more people to horn the skills needed to relief you as a founder when you have the money, see how free you will become.
Believe there is more skill set that needs to be promoted in the tech space such that we can understand better that solo genius can build, but it takes collective genius can deliver.
