What are some other boondoggles and well intentioned fu-kups. The Agile transformation has got to be up there.
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IT’s Better Leaders training. Fly all over the world with bad leaders training up new bad leaders. While everybody’s training and travel are significantly scaled back.
Hybrid work schedule and working from home or remotely.
HR came in to downvote the comment WtF does that even mean. Don't answer. It means you don't like the reaction to your pathetically lame off the wall meaningless complaint about your personal boogie-man who doesn't actually exist. Please seek a safe space and regroup, or get another job that you can handle. Way too many entitled & coddled snowflakes posting gibberish on this site. Just saying.
Scrum masters and RTE. still not sure why we have more overhead than actual people who deliver. Program managers, release train “engineers” (LOL!!!), product line managers, deputies to product line managers, and a million “product” owners who don’t own any real products… the entire agile thing is a waste of money that created unnecessary work for people. Other companies that made the wrong decision to go down this route have already reverted back to real work. Chevron is just slow in execution, but that time will come.
Scrum masters and RTEs are lucky that they were out of scope for the skills assessment across all other roles in IT, which has over half the people not competent to do their jobs. It’s incredible that the biggest waste of the organization somehow got out of doing a skills assessment for the function.
Big corporate initiatives like DIA, UWT, D2D, Triple Crown come with all sorts of boondoggles, so I really thought all this AI-washing around the company and attention on the new AI team would be similar. But I heard from a gal that they don’t even have offices or cubicles. No travel, no team parties, no R&A. All work, no play. Just another $100 pizza party from BB. Do better, BB!
Agile is the biggest boondoggle ever. It created more useless slots for no nothings who could then be called experts. It's a DEI wet dream.
HR came in to downvote the comment about digital scholars since they created the program and then sent a bunch of hr dummies to be in it. They shouldn’t even be eligible unless you help produce oil in some way shape or form.
@5vzo+ you are right, "digital" anything seems to confuse upper management.
I'm not sure why this is, presumably they got to these positions because they are good at prioritizing and making decisions, but digital projects don't seem to get the same due diligence as other investment decisions.
The Wave. L_Noble. A bunch of Gen Zs with a pronounced Chr1stian Mingle vibe.
Attach yourself to anything with "digital" in the title, or the latest social engineering trend. High management will nod their heads while not having a clue what you do (i.e., drink coffee all day and make powerpoints, point to "how successful" your initiative is at other companies), middle and lower management will cower thinking high management is "all in" on whatever nonsense you're spewing. This ruse typically lasts a year or two, make sure to keep aligning yourself with whatever the latest trend is.
ImagineIT
Data is in my DNA
Go Digital
Digital Scholars Program
UWT
Digital Oilfield
D2D
TripleCrown
Triple Crime is the biggest boondoggle for the executives flying around going to SLB conferences while nothing works. No practitioner actually believes this is the way to go. No executives actually believe that either, but the train has left the station. JG and KC left a legacy of a mess that people need to clean up, except that nobody really knows how anymore.
From a retiree: become a "Change Management" consultant. Are these cushy positions still around? Occupants were typically failed high PSG technical types or failed managers (CTC was a petri dish for these people) who had friends in high places. Their job was to come in to listen to teams with problems, tell them 'why don't you try something different?', then claim victory and move on.
Leading Performance! Get on that team and ride it out until retirement lol
MW telling us that BOD held him accountable for 2023 performance & he felt our pain. Yeah. I believe you, Anita. You wanna talk to me about impact on salary, M.? Please! 🤬
Must win technologies. In order to win we must power the core, win tomorrow and transfirm in the future...wow, did they come up with this themselves or had to pay consultants??? Lol
Decision Making Imperative.
Again, has anyone seen anything work? Like actually anything? Take agil - we all hand wave and pretend we’re having great success, but largely it’s performative. Even the buzz phrase “agile mindset” slowly slipping into obscurity.
Not really an initiative, but the "Houston Do'ers" was a complete disaster. No one had a clue what this initiative was all about. Was it advertising schtick? Was it to encourage more volunteer activity?
MIT mini-degrees. Haven't seen any meaningful "transformations" out of this group of wunderkind. In retrospect, this was just a plan to avoid having to recruit and hire actual experts.
CNE greenwashing
Women in Operations and MARC .... Social Engineering that failed miserably
The question doesn't even make any sense.
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What's the best thing that we can blame on someone else and not take any responsibility for, yet keep on complaining about things as if everything is everyone else's fault but our own?
HR
MW's entire tenure
the Next Gen project
CSOC
musical chair offices
Might be quicker to point to something that worked…
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