We split our company into 5 groups and then remembered that there was only 3 employees so we had to scrap that plan :-)
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:257953 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
