Proud and Honoured

The local RF leadership team in Bangalore spent a considerable amount of time b/w Oct-Dec'2015 to come up with the goals for the NIB RF team. We wanted the goals to be aligned with the overall RF Software goals, we wanted the goals to help solve some big challenges we have and finally we wanted the goals to be motivating for all of us to act on. My boss Joel Sumner was around last week and he did a mid year review of these goals and expressed his happiness on the progress in the all hands.

He also took an extraordinary step of reporting the same to our SVP Scott Rust. I feel proud and honoured and the credit goes to our goal leaders. I take this as an increased responsibility on the part of all the goal leads to keep up the momentum and close out on all the goals. Some of these goals/processes are being adopted by other groups/locations too, making it special. This is what he wrote:

From: Joel Sumner <joel.sumner@ni.com>
Date: Friday, 15 July 2016 6:10 pm
To: Scott Rust <scott.rust@ni.com>
Cc: ramp <Ramprasad.Moudgalya@ni.com>, Jon Bellin <jon.bellin@ni.com>, David Gardner <david.gardner@ni.com>, Rob Giesen <rob.giesen@ni.com>
Subject: Org Development in NIB RF

Scott,

  RamP in Bangalore is doing a really nice job with organizational development. It’s been approached in a way that has been engaging his leaders (both management and technical) and driving toward concrete results. 

I know good things are happening in other parts of our branches that I don’t have visibility to so this isn’t meant to compare to other efforts.  Just wanted to give kudos where it is deserved. Thought you might appreciate seeing some very good work.

Some observations from my trip there:

·         Out of 100 people in the RF SW organization in Bangalore, 22 of them are responsible (or co-responsible) for a goal.

·         Each goal has a measureable outcome for the year and for each quarter. They report to me quarterly on the outcomes, providing structure, peer pressure to achieve, and accountability

·         I see each goal owner showing pride in their work, taking ownership for the outcome, and driving change without needing my help to break through obstacles.  They rarely escalate to me a request for assistance.

Here’s a summary of the most significant accomplishments through the first 6 months

·         Historically high retention

·         Improving % of engineers that are at Staff Advanced or higher title & a continued focus on reaching 33% of the branch at Senior or higher

·         2x customer visits YoY

·         Continuing 10%+ product speed (test time) improvement YoY

·         ¼ man-year efficiency savings in test operations

·         Meeting the goal for RFmx adoption - at XX, YY and ZZ - all key customers

·         RFBidZone (an innovation program) has 31 participants

·         30+ internal training topics identified & scheduled

·         Increased interactions with marketing to drive the roadmap for WLAN and RFmx

·         2/3rds of NI-Tech Bangalore Submissions are from the RF team

·         7 CLAs from RF participated in the CLA Summit

-Joel

-- | Joel Sumner | R&D Director, RF Software | National Instruments | 512-XXX-XXX