Hearing ppl complain abt lack of "tech talent" impacting ability to get work done. IME, in many orgs, there’s self-inflicted waste that comes from self-imposed dependencies, hand-offs, context switching, sky-high WIP, crazy value work:fixing work ratios.
So, that's where I'd start looking for more tech talent. Change the environment so the ppl who are already there can work more effectively. Some of these issues aren't solved quickly or easily. FE, shifting the ratio of value:fixing work usually requires sustained effort, time.
Limiting WIP costs a lot of ego and face at the mgmt level, but can be done relatively quickly at the team level. What's the most important thing you are working on. Finish that. Then go the next thing,
Make management decisions about what gets done and what gets put on hold (for now). Handle the ego, face, status issues. Look at how your org. is incentivizing individual achievement at the expense of organizational goals.
I did some work at a company where a director had something like 14 "#1" priority projects going at any given time. We discussed WIP. He got that not much was getting done, but by saying yes to all 14 stakeholders, he deferred the yelling, and pressure he experienced to...
a few weeks during yearly planning, rather than having 13 ppl yelling at him continuously. All of whom had bonus $ tied to this director guy delivering on their project. That org was /designed/ to waste tech (+ all other talent) talent (and not deliver much).
Then, work on the next thing.
