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| Thread ID: 136141 | 2014-01-23 23:29:00 | A Dilbert moment | kingdragonfly (309) | PC World Chat |
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| 1365949 | 2014-01-23 23:29:00 | Here's the background: I'm in a small infrastructure team, of 6 people. At the tail-end of bi-weekly get-together of IT, my bosses' bosses' boss introduced a Slide Point presentation as a "fundamental change to how we're doing business." It boiled down to using Microsoft SharePoint 2013 for critical systems. (We currently use SharePoint 2007 for trivial and non-critical systems; it's barely used.) The last slide was the SharePoint 2013 timeline. In one week, the infrastructure is supposed to be in place. This involves creating 20 servers for 4 environments. Here's the epic failure. Yesterday, the Infrastructure manager was told by a business analyst that the SharePoint 2013 project was gathering requirements. Additionally, no one knew the subject of the presentation, save the presenters themselves and the bosses' bosses' boss. Except for a business analyst, the infrastructure manager had never met the project manager, or anyone involved in the project. It's not like we have plenty of free-time for this SharePoint 2013 project. At the same time, we're implementing a multi-million dollar highly-public web-service project, used by many external organizations. If it screws up, we're pretty much guaranteed to get into the newspapers. I wish I could say this is unusual, but it's actually pretty typical of the way projects are managed here. |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 1365950 | 2014-01-24 00:08:00 | At the same time, we're implementing a multi-million dollar highly-public web-service project, used by many external organizations. If it screws up, we're pretty much guaranteed to get into the newspapers. Not connected in some way to Xtra /Yahoo are you ???:D (runs away and ducks) :p That's the sort of thing that's right up their ally. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1365951 | 2014-01-24 01:07:00 | Unfortunately it's all too common. Management often makes decisions in those larger businesses, or acccount will, without actually involving those it impacts. The smaller businesses I've been involved with are thankfully usually not as bad :P Still, voice your concerns quietly in an email, then when **** hits the fan you can say "I told you so" ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1365952 | 2014-01-24 01:11:00 | Still, voice your concerns quietly in an email, then when **** hits the fan you can say "I told you so" ;-) Let me re-phrase that for you :) Still, voice your concerns quietly in an email, then when **** hits the fan you can say "I expressed my concerns to those in charged & advised against it" When it goes bad, those in charge will be looking for someone to blame. :thumbs: |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1365953 | 2014-01-24 01:48:00 | Unfortunately it's all too common. Management often makes decisions in those larger businesses, Still, voice your concerns quietly in an email, then when **** hits the fan you can run away |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1365954 | 2014-01-24 02:54:00 | Luckily I work at a small company and staff input does count, but even then our management quite often does some bull-headed decisions which I can only watch in horror and face palm at. | whiteandnerdy (17120) | ||
| 1365955 | 2014-01-24 04:54:00 | Gosh, couldn't someone suggest to management that the whole project could save time and money by insalling a beta version of Sharepoint 2015 instead? Then that one week of installing and testing would get you 2 years ahead of the game, and there'd be none of the usual BS patches to apply, as they wouldn't yet be written. There's nothing serious in the above statement. If I had my choice all areas would be using tried and tested software that is 2 or more years post-release, rather than the buggy, insecure latest releases. But as management knows, installing this stuff just involves placing a CD in the drive, and sitting for an hour at a blinking cursor, then repeating the process on the next machine. Childs play. Couldn't be easier. [/sarcasm] |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1365956 | 2014-01-24 05:00:00 | You actually get to meet your bosses bosses boss? I thought those tossers were just vapourware. Read a science article recently that basically said that promotions into the layers of management essentially just involve taking competent workers out of their productive zone and pushing them into areas where they are increasingly incompetent. Random promotions were expected to give better results, but would have a negative effect on workers motivation, knowing that promotion was independent of their own degree of effort. There's also higher degrees of psychopathy among those high fliers. They're not really the sort of person we should wish to mix with. Consider dating the cleaners instead if you want a real, grounded person. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1365957 | 2014-01-24 05:30:00 | And this is why I dislike big companies, any machinery or software purchase is fully discussed with the senior people that will be using it at our work. We gave even changed the bosses mind a couple of times. | plod (107) | ||
| 1365958 | 2014-01-24 09:07:00 | Sharepoint v.ANY is a disaster waiting to happen. | johcar (6283) | ||
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