JS should too. PSG 27 to run badder leaders workshops. Great use of company funds.
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DP should AEOI. Get this guy off of the payroll please. What a colossal f up of epic portions to have a chapter head approved for 100% remote “work” for several years while his whole chapter is enforcing the 2-3 hybrid schedule and firing people who didn’t abide by it.
He needs to leave before selections happen because he really doesn’t even know anybody in his chspfer besides those who were his personal friends.
Someone close to the source expects that he’s not going to EOI and stay through until the selections are finalised but really up in the air after that
@mn+1 shut your face with the nonsense. You just might get your wish when the only person who’s looking out for good talented employees leaves the company before the actual selection event and your fate is left up to the likes of the current XLT who have zero technical knowledge and no connection to any of us.
The chapter is the only good thing that came from that cr-p reorg. It just su-ks they were chopped at the ba--s and were pushed around by the product lines.
The chapters are on the chopping block. FS, a former subchapter manager in IT, jumped shipped in late 2024 to another team supporting Delphi out of the Engine. When you see the blessed DEI hires get moved out of a team and into new growth area, you know the rats are jumping ship before the announcements. I wish the average people the best in the new org.
Wow are you drunk
I used to think employees of my chapter were all say. The old crew told us that through the last 2 ROMs, our numbers still grew because of business need. Sounded all good til this AI team got stood up and MC supposedly handpicked everybody with no other selection criteria even though it could’ve been any one of us with a nice parachute. Our chapter leader bailed on us, probably because he saw the writing on the wall for the demise of the chapter and now we are on our own.
I will miss the chapter, it’s been invaluable to me, my career and social interactions. All the hate for chapter heads and managers but ALL of them had been nothing but good to their employees and always helpful. Reading these threads, I get the impression people think chapter is useless, but I think it’s one of the only good things that came out of renewal. I hope it survives and we keep the SCH because I’ve never been around people that cared so much and tried to do what’s right for the company and their people.
Good luck in the ROM because those were unrelated random topics. Hope your talent card is not written as the babbling rambles we just read
I worked with this amazing girl in Houston many years back, she could talk with anyone, code anything, solution anything, would always burn the midnight oil, always helpful, but she had one HUGE flaw, she was quiet and introverted and she was eventually let go in a ROM. In my few encounters with Jennifer, she doesn’t seem to be a bad person but she’s like most of Bill’s direct report, one dimensional, shallow thinking and loud/direct. Nothing against her but that applies to Raymond the snake, Alysia the awful, and has anyone spent any amount of time with Margery or Tiffany? OMFG… we could have had a thoughtful, introspective person like the lady I mentioned earlier, but that actually takes effort to uncover, so we keep ending up with the below average, shallow, politicking, type A ultra red personality type that drove this ship into a brick wall.
Explore? lol
When was the last time our explorers found anything?
It’s interesting how many IT folks are on here and complaining about their organization. 7-8 layers of management?!? Just outsource the whole lot and focus on what the company actually does, explore and exploit energy resources.
That’s just crazy talk because I jotted down some notes during SETH and have determined that SAFe will be the method that gets us to the objectives MW laid out for us. For details, you can go on workplace to see my post there.
@cs+1
Yes, chapters are gone. Everyone reports solid line in their delivery teams. However, it’s not a given that while SCH positions are gone, the same people are gone. In fact, if you’re a PO or “tech PO”, or if you’re SM or RTE, you’ll actually be replaced by some of the more capable SCHs.
Way less agile roles in the future state. If you’re still thinking of getting certified or re-certified for SAFe training, save the time and money and wipe your @ss with it instead because it’s more useful to use that as toilet paper than for the ROM.
The fact that the agile chapter had people get re-certified at $1000 per employee every year or 2 is disgustingly wasteful. If you were good scrum masters and RTEs already, tell me why you have to get certified again on useless processes that drained this company of its time and money. Agile is the FGP of IT.
Fly around the world doing better leaders workshop and hanging out with her old expat friends. Letting her chapter managers run everything and bring pretty much absent
"It’s just that Alysia never really knew how to implement/utilize/promote it and she put the absolute worst people in charge like Damian, Cory Smithson, Jennifer Scriabine and such."
Now what did JS do? She seemed like a good leader...
Chapters gone. Chapter Heads gone.
All agile BS gone
Are your really sure that these positions will disappear from new org structures ?
@a3+1 yeah we know, and a bad one … Sub-chapter Head that is
So much hate for the chapter, which understandable, but I really appreciated the chapter, I met a lot of new people, exposure to a lot of cross platform technology and endless learning opportunities.
It’s just that Alysia never really knew how to implement/utilize/promote it and she put the absolute worst people in charge like Damian, Cory Smithson, Jennifer Scriabine and such. How in the world does Damian get to work remote for years on end while everyone else is getting the axe, and why would he need 4 chapter heads? Nice guy but just worthless and Jennifer and Cory were just the worst shallow hires.
I love the chapter but I’m just upset that someone like Alysia was put at the head to drive it into the ground.
I looked up how big the Agile chapter is. IT IS INSANE HOW MANY PEOPLE THERE ARE. WTF!!!
Who cares what happens. Just consider yourself to be dead Chevroid walking.
They will not need the subchapters because there will not be any employees left in the USA.
You will see the subchapter leads and LT press for documentation to be created by individual contributors so they can extend their subchapter positions into 2026 to support the transition to Engine. The transition to Engine will need documentation because there is no way Chevron can ramp up 100's of new employees without work flows and documentation. The work flows were sorely missing when they outsourced to the MSP's in 2020 and the MSP's had to create the workflows. This delayed the adoption rate by 2 years, and this time the LT figured it out but most of them do not know how the work flows through the system.
Ex: The typical work flow at Chevron is "open a request in ServiceNow" and that is inefficient because people do not even know what request to open and what team. The requests are often not completed even after the request was closed.
They’re cooked
They’ll have to apply for jobs like the rest of us
All goners
Whose idea was it to bring Agile and chapter model?
If they’re good senior engineers with relevant technical skills hopefully they get absorbed back into delivery teams.
The other 80% can go try to find a job in whatever’s left of Agile or something.
Probably they will end up not playing as much golf because there will be fewer and they will have to actually have to work for a change.
Just a hunch......
Sub chapter heads played lots of golf, I should know I was one.
This nonsense from the 2020 "transformation" can't go away soon enough.
Chapters going away. Chapter Heads chopped off.