I simply quit DXC last year as a Project Manager. Final straw was our PMO Manager on my project was just awful. 5 years, no pay raise. 5 years...
I hope everyone affected by this has an awesome future.
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Indeed PPMC is still in use and will be more and more the tool for management.
Now non of the PMs have write access to their projects and needs to use a so called "purple sheet" to request ressources. You have to fill everything in it, unbelivebale.
It is going down...
Is that crock called PPMC still in use? That's the tool that keeps so many useless and unproductive middle managers employed at DXC. Get rid of PPMC and those oxygen thieves will have nothing to do, so given them the chop.
I wasn't a PM when I worked at DXC, but I felt sorry for them, it was just such a thankless task of adding so much to their plate - multiple projects at the same time and huge amounts of bureaucracy and procedures that assumed every PM was a child and needed so much detail as to deny any rational thought or flexibility to the point where status reports consumed more time than the work itself.
Management didn't have a clue and just took it out on the staff by firing them. I mean who gets rid of staff who are bringing in the revenue? Why would a business do such a thing and yet award raises to those sit around, consuming overhead, where their only strategic notion of growing a business is to cut fee earners? I don't get it. But luckily I don't have to :-)
I probably know you then.
I peeked in here today for the first time in almost a year, and what do I find? Project Mgrs talking about PPMC ! I used to administer PPMC as a member of AMS PPM Practice before WFR in 2016. Leaving wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t long before I realized “Wow, how did I live with all that uncertainty/garbage/gloom and doom for so long?”. Life is good, I wish you all the same.
Nope. Just called my boss and quit. I really did like my boss and she was always supportive of me and she deserved ample notice but she's just assigning me out and as much as she liked me too, she wouldn't have given me any notice if someone decided to quit me. It's the sh–shows I was assigned to that forced the move out, STAT.
And like the other response, I had nothing to go to. Just out of there. And don't get me started on PPMC!
Same here, I quit after 3 years of no raise. I quit even though I had nothing lined up. It forced me to look. This was 4 years ago. I love my current job, work for the Gov
Did you do a project closure report in PPMC before you quit ?