We already have AI in ELT (but not in a good way)!!!
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I kinda figured Unify was is trouble last April/May when they moved SVP LS to the project full time.
Bottom line - probably NO LAYOFFS due to ERP implimentation. Parts of IT rock (if you are moving product).
Amazing how much true insight one can gain by just jerking a few chains.my
Thanks for playing, you gave me all I wanted to know and more.😃😄😅😆
"ALSO - the " company would fail within hours without IT" along with "thin veneer of YADA YADA". That should be added to the next SEC filing to increase investor confidence."
It's just a fact, Jack. SCADA, Leak Detection, transaction recording and ticketing, planning and scheduling... all irrevocably chained to tech. If the systems don't understand the telemetry, down go the lines. If the control centre doesn't know what to do next because planning failed, same issue - just on a slightly longer timeline.
And yes. Enbridge is awash in "magic excel spreadsheets" that were written (often incorrectly) by long-gone SME's. The people in the seats don't understand how they produce what they do. They might know that the number it spits out is wrong, but they can't tell IT the right one, or how to derive it.
"Is Unify going to be delivered as Scoped."
No ERP transformation project in the history of ERP transformation projects has ever - EVER - gone live as scoped, within budget, or on time.
To quote a certain CD, "There are two ways ERP transformations end up for CEOs - and neither of them are good."
The comment " it will be a team failure" is comforting !?!? If should be included in the " HOW TO BOOST MORALE", line of discussion.
ALSO - the " company would fail within hours without IT" along with "thin veneer of YADA YADA". That should be added to the next SEC filing to increase investor confidence.
Sounds like the project has moved to the blame game phase. Who was it that decided to run off the SMEs (Subject Matter Experts)? Hmmmm...... You need to make sure they get their share of the credit.
Thanks for the honesty of the IT staffers (hopefully it really is you), it is very enlightening.
Since the main subject is LAYOFFS, it sounds like there should not be any. With SHOULD NOT an opinion since the project will "work as designed". All hands on deck to either bail water, paddle, or busily lay blame etc.
Anyone on the project can now qualify for a higher paying job at a consulting firm. Then come back in on Phase I through IV and milk the Company as an ORACLE expert.
It's a Win Win as far as job security goes. Oh I forgot, we still have to pay the dividend and cut another $100 million is costs. Is anybody steering the ship???
Seems to be a misunderstanding. Unify is not just IT. It's a collaboration between IT and the process owners on the business side.
I agree with the previous comment. Can't blame it all on IT if this project bombs. If it fails, it will be a team failure.
The assumed IT response, can it be Interpreted as saying????
Somehow the knowledge base, "the smart ones" left the company already. Those of us in IT who could not find a new job have to squeeze what knowledge is left out a bunch of @#$%"+??!!s.
It is not our fault oif it fails! Look who we have to work with!
IT so much fun. Sitting back reading everyone’s email. You know there is a “journal” function built in right?
Back to the original question — Is Unify going to be delivered as Scoped.
On time - is there an real GO LIVE date,
On budget
And it works.
Despite the reality (Agreeded near Impossible task ) that the business has descended into tribal factions, thanks to market conditions, a toxic work environment AND the fact that any knowledge if shared could cost you your job.
Spoken like a true IT Txxx.
So basically, the company exists so we can fund an IT department.
Oh please. Without those data digital buffoons Enbridge would fail in hours.
There are lots of successes in IT. Some are even spectacular as far as ROI or risk mitigation goes. They are generally done by competent people that succeed regularly and quietly, and do not feel the need to trumpet their work.
Those folks, when offered obscene amounts of money to try the impossible, simply pass rather than be poor stewards of the invested capital.
In fact, it's fair to say that IT is better at delivering than the business is at understanding itself and articulating its own needs in a concise and correct manner. You would be shocked at how little Enbridge business knows about its... business. There are huge amounts of tribal knowledge based thinly on long departed subject matter experts - knowledge that is fundamentally flawed when you sc-ape any of the veneer of reverence off of it.
Has IT ( or whatever they are calling the data-digital-bafoons these days ) had a success story in the last decade???? I wonder how such $$$$ this is supposed to save over say, 5 years.
Betcha no matter how bad it works it will be presented as a success to ELT.
AS ONE IT Honcho put it "Users, always hate what ever we roll out, even if it works. They need to learn to accept change and adapt to the product".
My best advice - BRACE FOR IMPACT!
I can't say I agree Unify'll save Enbridge much cash. Enbridge may have to hire more people to fill the gaps if "the efficiencies" or "combined synergies" don't go as planned.
The project got one of the famous "WOMEN OF ENRON"?
AM still has $100 Million out of the $400 Million he promised in savings to find.....Yes layoffs are coming in 2021
WARNING - Folks from Houston that are on the project have a very poor track record.
Maximo $21 million wasted.
STREAMLINE I & II goal was to take 3 legacy systems and convert to 1 unified system. In the end they had 2 legacy SAP systems and 1 new SAP system with lets say, super under whelming performance and a broken payroll system. No one really knows how much was wasted on this. The color schemes on the PP presentations were nice.😬
Most of the leads on this new effort are from ENRON and Duke/Spectra's failed Energy Trading venture.😈
Mottos= "If at first you don't succeed get funding for the next phase". "The 4th or 5th time is sometimes the charm", Good Luck