Thread regarding Chevron Corp. layoffs

As an IT analyst in chapter focused on SCM there is nothing wrong with using Excel if the user base and value do not meet the thresholds for a custom solution.

Any proposed solution must do better than Excel in order to justify the costs to design, develop, and maintain it.

Risks with using excel are potential bad data based upon multiple versions of a worksheet, dependencies on one or two individuals to maintain, and rudimentary business rules to prevent entry of bad data.

Risks with BU-level are bad or missing requirements, stakeholder turnovers, poor adoption rates, and costs to implement and maintain.

To put it a silly way, excel is a food truck and an Azure-based app is a restaurant. Not all successful food trucks can or should make the jump to a restaurant. Some are better off focusing on doing one or two things really well.

@1oyk+1vSzRKNu: I don’t disagree with your assessment. However, if we are going to call a group incompetent, let’s ensure our message is grammatically correct (at a minimum): sheer 😂

Great is excel. People can use it to deploy an IT solution without backlog prioritisation, PI planning, architectural review, assignment of an application ID, security scanning, creation of a pipeline, resource groups.

SCM and its leadership team must be some of the least tech-savvy in the company and the industry. The same concepts keep getting rebuilt using different technologies, and every time, it just falls apart worse and requires additional resources.
I was invited to attend one of the BUs recent town halls and I was amazed at the shear incompetence coming from the leaders, it spun as a solution to a problem that they created due to poor management... I guess it's the same everywhere but I struggle to think where these SCM folks would get jobs if they get cut..

Our ELT has failed the employees and the shareholders but will still be rewarded. No accountability for them and we are already suffering for it in a terrible work environment.

don't knock Excel...you'd be surprised how even larger seemingly more sophisticated companies still make decisions off spreadsheets

As a mid career hire, it’s my opinion this is spot on. There is this magical thinking that somehow processes replace tenured experience, and smart people are just plug and play into any role. Every other career field requires years of experience and continuous demonstration of performance to advance. Here it’s performative nonsense and networking. And the chickens are coming home to roost. We’ve advanced leadership that never had to execute, perform and be accountable, only show and tap dance with performative jazz hands and clever slides.

Funny, isn't it? Sometimes you think you're the only one who thinks like this then you realise we are most likely the majority. This person has encapsulated the essence of Chevron.