Look everyone we know that Devon lies. Believe me your job is not safe. Deeper cuts are coming because IT is being outsourced. They just don't want to tell us. Look for more and more red. Those in the PMO take a look at the new model emerging and realize you are not needed. The BUs run their own projects and you just schedule meetings and keep spreadsheets. The entire PMO in IT will be eliminated by this time next year. Trust me I know this to be fact. Start job hunting. IT will have a bunch of managers, managing contractors and no FTEs. It is shameful what Devon has become. The pillar of integrity is a monster oil corporation.
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Look for a new job at Accenture, Avanade, MAQ, Noah or Seven Lakes.
I agree.
In my opinion, the writing is on the wall that all of IT is eventually going to be outsourced in the long run. My old group at one point asked the CIO to come discuss the big picture with us after multiple projects that had incredible effort, cost, and very little payoff were pushed down from the CIO's office, while alternatives within Devon's wheelhouse were readily available and, in fact, already purchased and on roadmaps. We were told the CIO would not discuss our concerns. (In fact, one employee's job was directly threatened when he spoke up at the IT summit by a high ranking manager.)
Later that week, I was at Flint when I ended up drinking with some SAP consultants, who told me they "talked with
(Ironically, Accenture themselves contacted me and said that they'd like to have my information to contact me in the future for my skillset. Would that be the skillset that you played down as not valuable, and not needing to be included on projects? Makes a lot of sense that they'd like to have someone with my skillset in the products they sold as being terrible at Devon, once you realize that their business model seems to be that they will go into another company using the product they sold to Devon, and since they can't make money on something already in place, they'll find a flaw in that and sell the original solution they played down as terrible at Devon as that company's savior. Anything to make a buck... but I digress.)
Anyway, best of luck to Devon, really. They're going to need it. At one point I had to write a QRC that included steps to unzip a zip file for an Accenture employee on-site who got caught up on step 2 of a document that started with downloading and unzipping a file; they'd never unzipped something before, a core IT skill. I'd argue a core competency for any computer user, IT or not. Between the reduced staff and lack of vision, there's a real rough road ahead for those left. Wish you all the best of luck.