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Wait a minute, is the steering committee aware of this? Make sure before you start the workshop (but after the pre-workshop) you submit any requests to the Change Advisory Board. Who is sponsoring this?
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The real question is who is the owner? Who wants to own this task.
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Mar 8, 2023 20:25
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I’ll make a RACI chart so we can get to the bottom of this.
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Mar 8, 2023 20:30
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There are 3 hours of workshops scheduled for workstream 1. We can discuss the work that needs shopping in the workstream kickoff. No i will not send any material ahead of time, even though this is basically off the shelf software deployment and the process is well defined.
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Mar 8, 2023 20:33
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Let's invite the consultant or someone with experience to tell us how to do this deploy. haha, I'm just kidding. We have 4 MBAs in this room, we can just come up with our own plan.
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Mar 8, 2023 20:41
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Automatic reply: Trabant OOO Thank you for your email! I will be out of office through March 20th and will respond to your message once I have returned. If you have any questions about the deployment process in the meantime, please contact Lockback. Thank you, Trabant
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Mar 8, 2023 20:48
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Trabant posted:Automatic reply: Trabant OOO Lockback posted:Automatic reply: Lockback OOO
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Mar 8, 2023 21:04
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OK, we've scheduled roll-out of this for March 20th based on a non-SME stakeholder's arbitrary, "aspirational" demands. Now let's work backward from there and figure out how long we can allocate to each action on critical path. (Most drug projects that come into my department are like this, btw. Someone up the chain hears about a molecule and decides that clinical trials will start for it on Date X. Therefore, I have to have it manufactured by Date X - 60. However, nobody knows how to synthesize the molecule yet, what the formulation is, or what the dosing regimen will be in the clinic. As a result, the formulator can't start formulation work, tox studies can't run, nobody can tell me the dose or raw materials needed, and I can't place any supply orders or start qualifying equipment, let alone write the batch record.) Sundae fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Mar 8, 2023 21:04
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There isn’t even a project charter or sponsor, pack it in guys. Also no voice of the customer (which hasn’t been assigned because there’s been no DMAIC or SIPOC done yet). Just heard from the ELT though, and no one wants to be a sponsor or champion because there isn’t a completed one of the above yet, and none of the department leads will pony up the manpower to do one without a signed off project charter.
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Mar 8, 2023 21:11
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lmao and 
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Mar 8, 2023 21:34
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My director complemented me on my office politics recently.... help me. 
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Mar 8, 2023 22:06
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Trabant posted:lmao and The true story is even worse. I needed help from person A, who's OOO pointed them to person B, who's OOO pointed them back to person A or....to me, as a secondary. No I did not call myself next.
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Mar 8, 2023 22:30
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Ok guys, I'm the new contact for this. I will personally see to it that this project is successful, and I have all the documentation and plans on my own laptop. If you need anything, ANYTHING, come to me personally. I will make sure I'm involved in every step. lockack@company.com <deactivated>
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Mar 8, 2023 22:35
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Guys, you gotta stop. I'm having flashbacks and breaking into a cold sweat
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Mar 8, 2023 23:00
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Hey guys I know I just started here but I figured out a way to do this so much faster.
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Mar 9, 2023 01:21
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I have never appreciated more that my job is "here is money, turn this into at least this many sold units. No I dont want to know what you're doing or be involved or stop you, you're the expert. Just bring me the final tally"
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dpkg chopra posted:I’ll make a RACI chart so we can get to the bottom of this. Please don't create NSFW content for use in presentations. It neither impresses nor titillates.
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Trapped in a loop of stakeholder comms stupidity - My team gave a presentation yesterday to another team - The other team shared the presentation with their managers, who arced up about something and told their director that it was a problem - That director then goes to my director who hauls me into a meeting at 4.50pm yesterday to explain myself - I am instructed to immediately send an email to the pissed off managers clarifying details ("just send them a top line summary") and inviting them to a meeting to discuss the issue today - I do it. None of the pissed off managers reply or turn up - Their director asks me for an update, I tell him that none of his team showed up or got back to me and reiterate that they can come straight to me if there's an issue - I am then instructed that they need more detail than "just a top line summary" - I send them the original presentation that has all the detail - Silence I still don't know what they're mad about or what the problem is Jumpsuit fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Mar 9, 2023 05:17
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They realize they flew off the handle for nothing but now need to save face. Offer a meaningless change and then everyone can congratulate themselves on everyone's teamwork and agility.
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Mar 9, 2023 05:23
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Coworker: Sundae, your company credit card was deactivated. I can't put a charge on it. Sundae: The bill is overdue and the expense reports haven't been filed. Coworker: Why not? Sundae: Because you keep putting charges on it and not telling me or sending receipts, dude. Why do you even have the number?!?
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Lockback posted:They realize they flew off the handle for nothing but now need to save face. Offer a meaningless change and then everyone can congratulate themselves on everyone's teamwork and agility. You should be charging for these nuggets of wisdom, cause drat that's good
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Mar 9, 2023 05:46
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I've been fuming about work slack drama all day. The sales team at my company has been throwing nonsense requests at my team all week, including half the drat team creating a dm thread with me this morning to demand a refresh of some assets that are basically new, that they've been badly misusing for months, and which is related to a part of our product that our company has deliberately decided not to invest in. Later this evening, right before my notifications turn off, their VP posts in a public thread a completely insane claim that, if true, would basically mean that my team has done nothing right in the 18 months since my boss got hired, which I absolutely know to be false (he's flawed but our team is effective). In response I wrote up a poo poo post (basically: 'it's a poor carpenter who blames his tools. If you're not getting good results with these demo assets, have you considered being better at sales?') but then deleted it at the last second and instead posted some weak thing about the importance of good storytelling. I feel completely defeated by not making the poo poo post but I know that thing I posted will make the sales vp look brash and make me look like I should do a TED talk. This is the stupidest survival skill. Dukberry fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Dukberry posted:I've been fuming about work slack drama all day. I bet I can guess the next three words in this po-- Dukberry posted:The sales team Dammit, too slow.
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Paid my first big boy expenses tonight for a team dinner. There’s always been someone more senior than me in the room before tonight. I guess the cash back is good.
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Jordan7hm posted:Paid my first big boy expenses tonight for a team dinner. There’s always been someone more senior than me in the room before tonight. Do you have to have the entire list of who was there and sort out the booze? I had a boss who had to do that. After one time we couldn't get booze on the company tab again 
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priznat posted:Do you have to have the entire list of who was there and sort out the booze? I had a boss who had to do that. After one time we couldn't get booze on the company tab again Yup. I have a project to bill it to so I’m ok though. That’s the trick.
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Your company allows you to use a personal card? My last company had to put a policy in place that the company card had to be used for all expenses or else the expense report would be denied.
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skipdogg posted:Your company allows you to use a personal card? My last company had to put a policy in place that the company card had to be used for all expenses or else the expense report would be denied. Yeah we had corporate cards but no policy that we had to use them. I didn’t use mine during covid so they cancelled it.
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Lockback posted:They realize they flew off the handle for nothing but now need to save face. Offer a meaningless change and then everyone can congratulate themselves on everyone's teamwork and agility.  You're right. I just wish it was acceptable behaviour to call middle management a bunch of cowards
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Jordan7hm posted:Yeah we had corporate cards but no policy that we had to use them. I didn’t use mine during covid so they cancelled it. For d spot??
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priznat posted:Do you have to have the entire list of who was there and sort out the booze? I had a boss who had to do that. After one time we couldn't get booze on the company tab again I have to declare corporate entertainment and used to try and estimate the value to declare it until they introduced a minimum level on the policy to stop idiots like me trying to declare two beers. Lockback posted:Let's invite the consultant or someone with experience to tell us how to do this deploy. I have been on projects where consultants were hired to run the workshops to decide on the project goals
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HiroProtagonist posted:For d spot?? Nah. D needed me to use their card. It gave lounge access. It was a fine trade off.
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I just finished my first attendance at our company's annual sales conference, since I'm now in a direct supporting role at the "home office" to our NA reps. The extravagance was insane. This conference coupled with layoffs in IT / Finance / HR a month ago boggles the mind. Maybe we didn't need to bus our 500 reps to the Cowboys stadium for private VIP tours and an open bar one evening, and we could've kept some jobs instead. I get that sales folks are ultimately how we profit since they're getting doctors to buy our products, but maybe they can cut their budget a bit to help other functions out.
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Just another week busting my hump on a proposal for a product it turns out we don’t even have!
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I think I've finally gotten my sea legs as a manager. Only took a full year and change. Started the year with a new team after layoffs but it was smooth sailing putting together our roadmap, bringing the team together to get more familiar with each other, and getting them (seemingly) motivated to move on the work that we're focused on in 2023 after a very uncertain and frustrating 2022. It helps that I'm only managing one job profile now vs. 4 different ones throughout 2022 and I used to sit in the same profile that I'm now managing. It's made my life quite a bit easier though I kind of miss the variety of having multiple job profiles on my team. Also, I'm genuinely excited for my own projects this year, which is a change from the last two years or so. What is this feeling of positivity? At work??? Chaotic Flame fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Good-Natured Filth posted:I just finished my first attendance at our company's annual sales conference, since I'm now in a direct supporting role at the "home office" to our NA reps. The extravagance was insane. This conference coupled with layoffs in IT / Finance / HR a month ago boggles the mind. Maybe we didn't need to bus our 500 reps to the Cowboys stadium for private VIP tours and an open bar one evening, and we could've kept some jobs instead. They will not, but yeah that stuff is nuts. COVID was an eye opener on how that type of spending creeps up. Expenses were majorly under budget because the extravagant trade shows and cross country vendor visits shut down. Oddly, their absence did not materially impact the deals that came through.. The focus of some VPs post-vaccine has not been to grow the business, but regaining their pre-COVID travel and expense budgets.
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Democratic Pirate posted:The focus of some VPs post-vaccine has not been to grow the business, but regaining their pre-COVID travel and expense budgets. Our travel budget has been hit really hard, which is unfortunate because it includes conference attendance, which is super important to physicians and scientists. Beyond that, senior management have decided to spend what budget is available on an all-hands offsite meeting, which I'm sure will be excruciating. I really struggle to play the game with this poo poo. In management news: the biggest study I'm responsible for locks for primary analysis at the end of the month and I'm feeling the pressure. Hope we haven't hosed it up, it has cost nearly $100m and all comes down to one moment of denouement. There is an almost unlimited amount of work for me and the team to do. One of the hospitals has been pretty useless at entering their data... Will we get it? Nobody knows. Tick tick
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Chaotic Flame posted:I think I've finally gotten my sea legs as a manager. Only took a full year and change. Started the year with a new team after layoffs but it was smooth sailing putting together our roadmap, bringing the team together to get more familiar with each other, and getting them (seemingly) motivated to move on the work that we're focused on in 2023 after a very uncertain and frustrating 2022. It helps that I'm only managing one job profile now vs. 4 different ones throughout 2022 and I used to sit in the same profile that I'm now managing. It's made my life quite a bit easier though I kind of miss the variety of having multiple job profiles on my team. Yeah, I usually tell people the onboarding for new manager is about 18 months, give or take. And then the next magic mark is about 3 years in when that portfolio of "Oh, here's how I handle these situations" starts becoming something you can rely on and start growing past your current team. Its a really good feeling!.
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Lockback posted:Yeah, I usually tell people the onboarding for new manager is about 18 months, give or take. And then the next magic mark is about 3 years in when that portfolio of "Oh, here's how I handle these situations" starts becoming something you can rely on and start growing past your current team. Every situation not being brand new is definitely a big part of it! Going from competent IC to (what feels like) incompetent manager is not a great feeling. But now I'm back to feeling competent (and my feedback seems to agree) so now I'm enjoying* work again! *enjoying work as much as one can enjoy work
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