We start one project, abandon it halfway, and jump into the next shiny thing. Management can’t commit to a direction for more than a week. It’s a miracle anything gets done.
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It’s nearly 2 billion on SF. The return on that black hole is 4th in line only to TMobile, DTV, and TimeWarner, followed by closely ServiceNow.
T loves to throw new system/ tools out there for use that are (knowingly) not fully functional and we will figure it out as we go.
Then as always, there is never any funding left to make any updates/changes to the tool, so you are stuck with what you have.
Rinse and repeat.
Except for Salesforce. That’s one massive executive blunder that we won’t let go when we should have. Over a billion dollars invested so far on a system far worse than the point of sale system we already had.
@c1 Agile doesn’t work for anything. It’s a joke.
Truth is, agile doesn’t work for everything.
Because they have no concept of how to develop and only know buzzwords
The way that zero meaningful pre-work or planning goes into every new endeavor makes me insane. A bunch of id--t high-level leaders with no grasp of what goes into their plan dream up an idealized product and then je-k each other off about it ad infinitum until they realize some stupid saps need to make it real and they shovel the sht down onto the plate of the people below months into their ideation mastrbation. When someone tells them there isn’t enough time or resources to do what they want, or that is isn’t possible in the way they think, they freak and push it down to outsourced leads who just tell people to do whatever and get it over the finish line. It gets abandoned all at once for a new, shiny idea or a sh*tty half-baked project limps over the finish line to roaring applause.
Embarrassing
Facts. Truth is, agile doesn’t work for everything. Some projects require longer term work and dare I say more of a waterfall approach. They think everything should fit into their sprints, fiscal and quarterly funding models and it just doesn’t. If it isn’t don’t by the end of the year, it gets thrown out and started over with some new shiny thing. This is why bigger projects and real changes never get done. Also why we are still on all these ancient backend systems, some would take years to migrate.
It's very important for us to keep our status as #1 powerpoint user in the world. We love our powerpoints. To the OP's point, we also love to ditch said powerpoint plan in middle and start a new one. Just because we're the #1 user, doesn't mean we're the #1 finisher. We don't know how to finish around here unless it's buying high and selling for pennies on the dollar. Perfected that one.
Perfect description of the dumpster fire T2R.
Don't underestimate "updating the update" EVERY week!
Gotta' keep those Chief's of Staff busy changing the colors on Powerpoints!
So true.
It’s because they think they can rush this stuff. They like to do “sprints” and go fast leaving gaps in process. They go after the easy stuff first but rush that too. Next week that sprint is behind you and you’re onto the next, even though the easy stuff they did in sprint 1 isn’t finished.
Each and every sprint has gaps and unfinished deliverables but they can show it to leadership and say, look what I did! Can I have a cookie?
Next thing you know it’s the end of the year and they are shutting the project down and moving into the next years goals.
Rinse and repeat, nothing is ever completed 100%