I think there are about 30 jobs in the IT PDC for agile or program management type roles. That's a huge number of jobs that contribute to nothing but project overhead. Too many planners, and not enough doers. The developers have to explain to their scrum masters what they're working on. Waste of company resources. Oh, and the majority of agile resources are also contractors, which is another insane thing that Chevron IT is doing.
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The problem with 50% solutions in o&g is that it is hard to incrementally move a ho-e in the ground as you begin the gradually get a clue.
SAFe just means releasing a 50% solution and spending months/years working on upgrades. How safe do you think it will be for the oil industry?
IT stinks with or without him. Who's leaving now?
The German is doing just fine. CVX IT, not so much.
@4ydd, thanks for the reminder. Now that we look back at this, a whole lot has changed with IT. Basically innovation went to nil. IT services and reliability also totally gone to the toilet. Not that he could have fixed it himself, but to say that there was no impact is just false.
@1mrt I thought the company was supposed to be devastated by the loss of the German dude you all hailed as the great IT leader. Doesn't seem like much has changed since his Kr--t a$$ left.
Prove me wrong.
Who? IT and leader seem like an oxymoron? But let’s hear it
nobody cares when agile chapter employees leave the company.
wait until you all hear the news of a prominent IT leader leaving for tech...
Chevron IT has more "agile" IT people than any other company in the world, minus consulting shops that source PMs. let that sink in.
More consultant gobbledygook. When some new trendy 'process improvement' comes along, the name will change. What's funny is that these trendy 'improvements' have a longer training period than actual life.
No one cares.