Good luck
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@h3 as someone who was part of that org and got axed on Nov 25, thanks for the kind words! Have to say though, the grass is far greener on the other side, I feel terrible for those that were left to pick up the pieces.
You’re either making money for the company or saving the company money. If you’re just overhead, then you need to go.
The last time we had a proper PMO in VCG was a year ago, but they laid off PMO and Portfolio . Miss those guys. They were good.
Nancy had a team of project managers who also oversaw the Escape Rooms, they did not anything about project management. They had canned templates, not one person in that team knew how to create a clear and concise project plan. Other groups had no idea how to run projects either. Unless one had experience in creating granular project plans, start dates and end dates, employees would lie on project progress as well, or 'tried to control the narrative' in front of Senior Directors and above. Some projects that should have been a month long became multi-year projects.
@c1 network engineering RF? Like at market level?
So sh---y teams can no longer deliver what they are supposed to on time because everyone is so inundated with work and social media heads are as clueless as a horses a-s. Good luck and god speed, sh-t a-s company
@bt That's the exact problem. Too many approvals, too many people doing nothing but tracking and not working the project from initiation to release. There is a lot of focus on the inefficiencies going on right now. In most verticals there has been a significant increase of business team requestors managing their own projects with PM's acting as account managers. At present project management in Verizon is not sustainable in its current format, nor is it delivering the ROI it should.
C Suite knows this. They've been looking at alternatives for some time to our current structure. If it doesn't happen today it will be soon the change occurs.
RF engineering, and the Fast Desk are both being outsourced to India and that management cut.
Notifications are about to start
@OP there is NO single group call Project Management in Verizon. We have a gazillion amount of teams and each individual product, services, disciplines have projects in their realm and so there'd be PM everywhere and not in a single entity like you are broadcasting. Stop the BS please
A few weak ones remain. Hopefully it happens again so we have more excuses for not hitting our impossible goals they've set.
Fleet project management is useless
@a1 Reorganized across most departments portfolio in vcg and some TPM's were hit. Now no one is delivering timely and everything is driven from outside the funnel. Hopefully the whispers are wrong.
They were already chopped back in November of 2025