The leader rank went through the exercise of the "Great Management Thinning". This pushed many managers into P4 roles. Then others were promoted like mad into director roles. This now leads to an increase in the manager ranks. Meanwhile, not enough people to do work. Business as usual.
Our business partners know that no real work happens at P4 and above. It's an elaborate web of overhead put in place to control business expectations. Meanwhile a multitude of vendors are scrambling without direction to meet the metrics on their contract obligations. Will the madness ever end? The business should just outsource the whole IT organization. Right now we're just sucking up Lilly resources with no true return on investment.
Maybe only the IT area you work with needs outsourcing. Maybe you people do not give any decent requirements to IT.
Every IT project uses a different requirements document. Sometimes we just use emails. It's never done to professional IIBA standards. Business users are not trained in giving requirements, but IT should be training in professionally collecting and documenting them. We do not have a requirements standard in IT nor are our P4s consistently trained to gather them. As a result, our requirements are vague, incomplete, misleading and a disaster waiting to happen.
I agree we do not have good requirements standards/guidelines. Since outsourcing is the a given the least we could do is improve in this area.
Dull dull dull - that's how I'd describe this post. Has everyone lost their tongues or is working here just so fab we've all sub consciously decided not to speak out? Seems awfully quiet on here.....
The company is in the "educate the employee" mode. They are slowly getting people ready. There is little to discuss at this time. There will be enough to talk about soon.
Personally, I love it here. The pay is good, leadership rocks and my manager says there's nothing to be seriously concerned about. I've always been able to take my full 3 weeks of vacation and this year I have an extra anniversary week. You can't get perks like this anywhere else.
