Hey Jim we are going through the same types of re-org, though more gradual, and we are also a large enterprise. We are first starting with the web, directly affecting me, but our organization of groups is slightly different. Did they throw out the ITIL stuff in the presentation? We are currently working through our service catalog. If you want to talk further about this, we're about 8 months into it, feel free to contact me off list. Its a rough road but it can have payoffs and it sounds like they did the line move and now are figuring it out for real, we're doing a similar thing.
Adam Haskell On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on vacation... which, history has shown, means that all hell will > break > loose. This time I get a call yesterday saying "you don't have to come > in.... but you might want to come in..." > > So I come in. > > Turns out the new CIO has decided to completely reorg our entire > organization's IT department: application development, business systems > and > management. He's splitting application development into two distinct > groups: one that handles only new development and enhancements and > another, > brand new group, that handles only maintenance and hardening. > > Apparently, we're told, this strategy has worked successfully in other > firms... but none even close to as large as we are. These teams would > cooperatively manage some 480 applications across multiple mainframes, > server farms and platforms. Members of the maintenance team will no > longer > maintain single applications but be expected to manage multiple/all > applications and look for economies of scale, opportunities for > standardization, etc. > > By the end of the day 33% of the organization (about 400 people) were > directly affected (moved to new management or added to this new team). > The > next nine months will be spent defining roles and implementing processes. > > So, after only 6 months in my new position (I was FINALLY feeling > comfortable!) I'm now a member of the new Maintenance org and won't > actually > know who my manager is for at least a week. I won't know what my new role > is for at least a month. > > There's actually a lot of potential goodness in all this but at the same > time I just spent a huge amount of time convincing a new team that I was > worth my salary and learning tons of new stuff... now I have to do it all > over again. > > So I'm cautiously optimistic, but dammit I'm also tired and dealing with > this on my vacation (where, in theory, I'm supposed to forget work) is > slapping me down something fierce. > > Just thought I'd vent. Cheap therapy. ;^) > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257934 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
