If we get nothing else out of the re-org in progress, we must eliminate these horrible Chapters. They have added no value and simply confuse everyone with excess matrix and overlap. They destroy accountability and most are led by the weakest managers I have seen in the company.
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Chapters in CTC are basically the remnants of teams in the old system, with the idea that you need groups of specialists placed together to share and grow technical knowledge even as these specialists are farmed out to work on different projects. In IMHO we need to keep Chapters (teams) and get rid of the whole Agile nonsense. In CTC, at least, just have chapters and projects funded by (owned by) BUs and in more limited cases corporate initiatives.
Chapters are gone.
As a result of the IT leading performance team reading this site, they agreed with you and decided to abolish the chapters. Thank you all.
I had an opportunity to engage with GM AG a few times and I agree she is an awful GM, just the absolute bottom of the barrel, but someone that’s just as bad as her is the HR IT manager PL. Those two can convince you if they can make it up the ranks, then anyone should be able to.
Chapter model in some form should stay but definitely AG should go. She completely destroyed IT Engineering
Nobody cares. Get back to work.
Chapter model is way better than the previous team manager / tech team lead model. The team manager position was not a full time job so they had a bunch of excess capacity to come up with stupid initiatives or time wasting requests.
I disagree that the chapters have to go, I really like the chapter model and the flexibility it affords. It’s really helpful that in my chapter I can tap into all sorts of expertise to help get work done, in-addition to moving to other platforms outside a PDC, those weren’t readily available in the delivery model. I hope the chapter model survives all this.
agreed
I’m aware of chapters but oblivious to how they really work. I hear a lot about AI nowadays, is AI a chapter? Is it like anyone who works in AI a chapter? I work at a unit but I hear the word chapters now and then but really clueless how it all works.
I wish Chevron their Direct vs Indirect head count and spending
The numbers will be mind blowing.
I bet we spent 10$ on indirect labour for every 1$ direct
A good ratio is 1 to 1 a stunning ratio is 2 to one direct to indirect
The executive pay will skew. This number even further and that is why they do not publish this.
These Chaparter and all of the IT and Agile sh-t has nothing to do with making or selling oil at the most part, and most of their work can be contracted out as services.
These Chapters sh-t is a direct impact of RM build you empire girl... go girl ... we support you girl... go waste money and distract our business ... they freaking had AI in HR in an Oil compnay filled by people who have never been any where near an oil drop.
This place needs a major shake