Fighting a losing battle - Why battle first of all ?

(The chronicle of this battle will show up in this journal as the battle progresses)

Vikram is pretty puzzled by "Ram" situation as described by Betaal. He has been doing some deep analysis putting himself in Ram's shoes.

How do you fight a battle that you know you are losing ? And one choice ruled out ! Can not surrender !

The only option left is keep on fighting the battle.

He can not think of the end result. That is too disturbing.

Vikram takes it on him and walk to Ram's office. They sync up on the situation.

Vikram asks, why the battle ?

Ram: There is this peice of roadmap, my team is most suitable to acquire. I know the players, customers. My team has the know-how. We will do justice to the business.

Now, the other warring team believes, if this happens it becomes a threat for them. Other team is happy being a complecent team. Happy being given direction.

Do not want to own or drive. Do not want to take responsibilities and take decisions. Want the decision to come to them from other sites and they will be happy executing them. The other site people are happy as they have all control and they have helping hands but no one of the helping hands will become indispencible for them. They will be slaves. They will take order. Do dirty work. Get paid and be happy.

So, both the sites joined their hands. And now want to take the know-how from my team and use them in the dirty, non-accountable model. That will break my team up and that wont grow my beloved engineers to think on their own. To innovate. To thrive for success. They will get the task. They will execute them.

This will breed mediocrity ! This will bring down this sites credibility and technical strength to pre-2003 era. This is a regression.

Vikram came back with some food for thought ! He has to help Ram make a battle plan ! Soon.