First, there was collaboration.....(we are all in this together)
Then there was automation....(python, ansible rah rah rah!)
Then came agile......(hire scrum masters so we have have two bosses!)
Then came silos (due to agile...we don't care about anything outside our 2 week sprint!)
Now comes AI......(humans BAD, AI is good!)
Meanwhile, BE gets 22M per year, chainsaw gets 40M per year...and
...I get laid off!
I can speak from experience of 30+ years that WFC IT is a total damn train wreck. It's getting worse by the day, if not hour.
And what about JIRA? A new extra full time job documenting mostly inane drivel that nobody reads or cares about.
, and adds no value except justifying the money they wasted on it.
Yep. Shart has always hated mortgage. A sliver of that group remains, but he'll ki-l it completely soon enough. He wants mortgage and retail gone as soon as possible because those require the most domestic headcount. Once they are gone, almost the entire company outside of WIM can be outsourced, automated, or contracted out.
Don't forget Kanban and universal Wells Fargo branded UI libraries, Jenkins, PCF. Oh the everchanging CI/CD. and testing.
Remember when lending was shifting lending scope to mainly people of color or high balance current customers? Can’t believe they had the nerve to say that out loud. It mysteriously went away after a few quarters!
Don’t forget Six Sigma and the black belts!