We have bi-weekly staff meetings here for our department where we discuss what we are doing and our boss fills us in on any other details we need to know about. Once a month, we have an all-IT meeting with our CIO where he talks about the business and each of the managers provides some updates. We also have change control twice a week, plus there is an architect meeting for the architects, and an infrastructure readiness to discuss and approves changes to our infrastructure. Several of these meetings are cross-departmental and allow for collaboration. In addition, we have a weekly email that is sent out with each team's updates. All of these things server to break things up a bit. We stay in the loop with any new projects that may affect us by rotating which member of our team will be involved in the project, preferably from the design phase.
Thanks, James Winzenz Infrastructure Systems Engineer II - Security Pulte Homes Information Services ________________________________ From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IT Departmental Meetings Hi Everyone, Right now we have the most boring meetings for our IT Dept. We have weekly meetings with 15 members of our staff in them from the CIO to lower level techs and everyone in between. We fill out an agenda with what we are working on etc. The meeting lasts forever and the DBAs don't want to hear what the Network guys are doing and the techs don't want to hear what the systems guys are doing etc. etc. just awful meetings and nothing gets accomplished. We were told since we don't like the meetings and they are highly ineffective to come up with a better way to hold them. I was thinking about every 2 weeks have the CIO meet with the management in each division together so we still know what is going on with the "team". Every week is way too often and doesn't give enough time to report on completed projects etc. I was wondering how dept. meetings are held at your places of employment for the IT dept. Thanks..BC CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete the message and any file attachments from your computer. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
