Our IT group is embarrassing! It takes months for us to complete what a Google intern can complete on a lunch break while playing call of duty. Am I crazy?
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You're right. BB can't save or improve IT. But bringing in an external CIO isn't the answer either. You need people who know the complexity of Chevron.
Just have another ROM and get these people to take a package. The entire FLT plus their direct reports who are over 50 should just take it. They are the reason Chevron IT is the way it is. The next ones up still have a change to fix it because they know Chevron. And they have more skin in the game to want to change it. Imagine if you're PSG 27-28 in IT and have 5-10 years left... there is no reason to truly change. You've made it that far by following your training as a Chevron IT employee. Just hunker down a few more years, and it's all easy money. And this is why IT is trash. Don't just change BB. Change them all.
The only solution to IT is to get rid of BB and hire an external CIO that will clean house !
Believe me, IT is not the only ones slacking. I know of so many people in other BUs who do the same. It’s why so many folks don’t leave Chevron. Such easy “jobs” and supported by lame leadership who constantly promotes work life balance. They need to get their heads of the sand. Yes, promote work life balance but teeter more to work because it has not been balanced for over a decade! And WFH just makes it even easier to either for the cheaters or to take on a second job for the go-getters. Know of some people doing that and making a ki----g!!
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Haha. Sounds similar to my day but I’m in finance.
I’m in IT and I never do anything. I get up at about 8:30 and log in. I attend a few meetings and pretend to pay attention but I’m really just playing on my phone. If I don’t have meetings I take a 3 hour break to go swimming. I send some emails and IMs while I’m in the pool so it looks like I’m working. I send emails late at night so it looks like I work hard. My product owner tells me to get some sleep (lol!!). I thought I would for sure be let go in ImagineIT but my boss represented me in the selection meetings and he loved me (I always gave him tons of compliments and made him look smart). This is not a joke. I’ll stay in the chevron payroll until they get rid of me.
Dude if you had any IT skills whatsoever would you be wasting your time at Chevron? 🤣 People with tech skills want tech salaries. Sorry
“The files are in the computer? It’s so simple…”
Business Units are complete trash. They barely know how to spell computer and then hire a bunch of contractors who write spaghetti code then wonder why it takes an army to maintain a “simple” application and why it isn’t stable.
Only losers work for Chevron IT these days because they can’t compete with real IT companies and they know they have it cush at Chevron. Anyone worth their salt wouldn’t be at CVX pretending to be IT experts. What do you expect when the IT leadership is made up of incompetent mo--ns. So just lower your expectations of IT and just sail along like most everyone at Chevron. Sad how it was once a great company to work for and invest in. Not anymore.
If you think coding is so easy why don't you go code the project yourself?
Product Owners are all from the functions. If you think your IT sucks a big fat one, you can thank them for being the sole determination of what gets worked on. They have no real experience or expertise of a real Product Manager at a high tech company doing product research, market research, defining product specs, etc. but that is what your VPs in your BUs said the business users wanted. So congratulations you got what you wanted, cause IT is so easy rights? So complain to your function counterparts in CTC and the BUs for prioritizing what work gets done on the Digital Platforms. IT LT prefers it this way, since they now get to shift responsibility for building garbage to the function folks and get to claim credit for adding business value. #Winning in any environment!
IT, HR, and Finance exist (and have bloated numbers) in order to 'balance out' the white male dominated professional ranks.
IT has been worthless for decades now. You get more support asking someone (anyone) down the hall than you do from IT. They've always been 'two steps behind' on any new software or initiative, and by the time they catch up, we've moved on to something else. Can't we just outsource this to Microsoft?
We don't need no IT at Chevron! We need to go back to the 1800s where we had no computers. Throw out any software that runs rigs or pipelines. I want to go back to pencil and paper for everything. If someone needs data I'll mail them a letter. No software for pay checks. Just mail me a check. IT does nuthin' for the company or anyone (as I use a computer to post this).
IT has been outsourced to low-quality contractors in many cases (be careful what you ask for when you want IT to be outsourced outside of the US) and the people still around are working in a bad operating model and are understaffed and funded. You get what you pay for.
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The tool does not create value. The info that is put into the tool is what creates value.
If you put garbage data into any program it provides garbage. The tool is of no value, remember this was all done by one engineer in the past who used judgement so your value of this tool is eliminating one engineer. I am not sure where you come up with your value number unless you are claiming all value of the people putting the data into the program. Your making up funny numbers
@1and the FIT program was good. But the new IT operating model blew that up.
They built those things in partnership with the business. Nowadays, the platform model is eroding any value that we have had in the past because our senior leaders in CTC still do not believe that the Permian is core to our business. They thought that all of these Permian tools were just BU gone rogue and not following orders of UC and ETC. Now CTC runs the show and none of the BUs really get any support.
IT has built most of the tools for managing the Permian as well as tools for managing our global portfolio of assets. These tools create huge value. Have you seen the LPO tool? It tells everyone which assets/wells to fix to make the most after tax earnings.
IT hasn't built me anything, but I did find out last month that they're taking away Spotfire because it's too expensive. I was thinking in my head that if we got rid of the group getting rid of Spotfire, we can just use that cost to keep our "expensive" licenses. They think that Power BI can do everything Spotfire can do. Really knowledge crew they got there. Can't build anything useful, but take away things that we can just BUY.
Not really.
Yes, proven fact.
We are not a tech company. We should really outsource this. Better let me ask you a question and I don’t know the answer. What programs has our IT developed for.
Drilling Wells
Completing Wells
Working over wells
Producing wells
Optimizing production
I know someone made workday which did not transfer data already located other programs. I guess my real question is where does IT increase the bottom line of and oil and gas company.