Sabre has invested heavily in technological transformation to be competitive once the travel environment rebounds. My personal opinion is that a pandemic is a bit of a weird time for such technological migration and such investments. Some others think the time is right.
I just hope the technology expenses pay off. What is your opinion about these investments?
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It is an opportune time to invest in technology. Travel is slow so why not ramp up the technology and take time to properly train staff to sell and use the new products?
This approach will only work if you have proper leadership and a balanced and motivated workforce. However Sabre is horribly managed and the workforce is untrusting of leadership and hence very unmotivated.
Is there been enough transparency in terms of what has been moved to the cloud and what is left to move from a centralized site. Hard to fathom what went wrong at Dell/emc this week to cause a worldwide outage, if the cloud has decentralized everything and built the in redundancy.
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A company or product can become redundant with our without new technology. How does the new prevents that from happening?
If you dont make these tech investments then you become redundant. This is absolutely essential to our future and the exec team are right on the mark
How many C-level executives have any type of prior software development experience or any clue how to run a tech company? Yes, they know how to write strategies, but when it comes to execution... not much to show, oversold and under delivered. They spent all their time and efforts into writing strategies... Tech company only in name, nothing more.
Well were still waterfall so I'd say "no" were not a Tech company.
Good question about User Stories, how many customer facing staff are involved with the User Stories to help translate real world user issues / solutions into the products.
C level managers might think we are tech company, but I see many line managers who behave like they have no experience in software development. Come on, for us even Agile is a new think... LOL.
How many PO/PM write user stories together with the dev teams?
One of the many bad decisions. Sabre needs to decide if this is a technology company or a service company. Although they claim to be a technology company, the competitors - Amadeus, etc. are much further ahead with the technology transformation. The technology was the last resort to increase the stock price. In my experience, upper management does not see much value in technology or highly technical employees. They value business analysts and project managers more than developers and architects. In reality, these two layers can be eliminated. The business analyst role can be split between development and the business stakeholders. Many other roles can be eliminated - system owners for example.
The C levels are simply inflating their resumes before they exit. If they can claim they "turned around an old technology stack during a major pandemic" it will make them and their egos look better.