I'm on vacation... which, history has shown, means that all hell will break loose. This time I get a call yesterday saying "you don't have to come in.... but you might want to come in..."
So I come in. Turns out the new CIO has decided to completely reorg our entire organization's IT department: application development, business systems and management. He's splitting application development into two distinct groups: one that handles only new development and enhancements and another, brand new group, that handles only maintenance and hardening. Apparently, we're told, this strategy has worked successfully in other firms... but none even close to as large as we are. These teams would cooperatively manage some 480 applications across multiple mainframes, server farms and platforms. Members of the maintenance team will no longer maintain single applications but be expected to manage multiple/all applications and look for economies of scale, opportunities for standardization, etc. By the end of the day 33% of the organization (about 400 people) were directly affected (moved to new management or added to this new team). The next nine months will be spent defining roles and implementing processes. So, after only 6 months in my new position (I was FINALLY feeling comfortable!) I'm now a member of the new Maintenance org and won't actually know who my manager is for at least a week. I won't know what my new role is for at least a month. There's actually a lot of potential goodness in all this but at the same time I just spent a huge amount of time convincing a new team that I was worth my salary and learning tons of new stuff... now I have to do it all over again. So I'm cautiously optimistic, but dammit I'm also tired and dealing with this on my vacation (where, in theory, I'm supposed to forget work) is slapping me down something fierce. Just thought I'd vent. Cheap therapy. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257831 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
