After all the complaints of how Agile ceremonies are wasting time, IT Leadership is considering renaming the Agile Chapter to Agile Engineering Chapter to bring credibility to an organization that is a total joke. How does this bring credibility to a useless organization?
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Agile is such BS... 'minimally viable product', need I say more?
Agile Engineering will be almost equal to Data Engineering and Application Engineering in their engineering expertise. Why not?
Name changes make my nutz tingle.
One lady wanted to call it the Chapter for Unlimited Neural Training. Go figure.
@2vfo+1cKfERoD Spot On!!!!
it's because we want to build an IT engineering powerhouse, which has a lot of people who can't pass a technical interview anywhere else.
We even renamed our joke of a tech expert program to "distinguished engineers". The majority of the group besides a couple are not even the experts in their technical areas. When ImagineIT pitched the idea of chapter leaders having technical expertise as a requirement of the job, I think only a couple of the chapters actually have it. If you look at who the next level supervisors are in software engineering and data analytics, the supervisors have actually done the work before and are actually seen as technical leaders in there areas. If you look at data engineering, none of those chapter leaders have ever been a data engineer. And they hid the business analysts in that group too. With more super BAs as their team leads. There is hardly any technical talent in that group. A lot of talking a good game. Same garbage data group. Most of them don't know how to code or haven't done it in 2 decades.
And if we look at agile -- it's just a chapter for the people who barely survived the ROM. and oh, we are probably promoting a lot of them. and I see multiple subchapter head postings for agile leadership in the PDC. So much for a powerhouse ENGINEERING organization. What a joke.
The proper definition of an engineer is someone who designs and builds something...but PEs never have had a patent on the title. What do you call a person who commandeers a choo-choo train? What do you call a person who takes petroleum classes? Heck, I've even seen cleaning ladies called domestic engineers. So what if CVX wants to be generous with the title? Probably because with lofty titles go lofty salaries. Stop being jealous.
I am always amazed at all the folks that want to hijack the term "engineering". IT is really computer software and programming. They are programmers, not engineers. Computer Programmers do not take real engineering courses in college. They have their own courses and should be not be called engineers.
It's all fake engineering.
@ozt, I'm sure you realize that 98% of internal PP presentations are 'reviewed' by no one, all kinds of 'branding standards' violations. For instance PP automatically capitalizes slide and bullet titles, no one bothers correcting that. These PP rules only apply to outside or SR PPs.
Re-branding won’t help with efficiency targets.
MW is really passing in his pants seeing this sh—t ! His next move will be to bend over BB and make his rear agile ! EB (his boss) may just stand on the sideline and laugh her a— off ! DP will call the ambulance as that’s all he know how to do in Emergency Mgmt 🤣
I retired last year, enjoying the free time, no stress, no commute, no BS. You really mean to say that Chevron is still policing PowerPoints for the 'approved' colors, fonts, logos, pictures, and capitalization (or lack thereof)? Is this what DP's daughter does?
Decades proven gimmick by Chevron management to give the illusion of change (and improvement?) - take what you have, put a fresh coat of paint on it, and declare it "new". Maybe use the ruse to promote one of your high pots (or sons or daughters).
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@zld+1cKfERoD - We would rather deal with Covid then deal with more CVX IT bu-----t.
Why isn't #digital converting us to a meme stock and lifting our stock price?
But did the focus committee review and comment on the fonts used in the PowerPoint Presentation. Oops they got the color wrong for the logo. Will have to send back to change management, who will have to negotiate with contractors to outsource to India.
I’m not remapping all this sh!t again.
Apparently there were several weeks of meetings in the name change and even some work with focus groups to see how it would play. Hundreds of hours invested in this important development!
Very reflective of the IT Leadership’s competence level!! This IT Leadership team can only deliver on PowerPoint after many hours consultations with their army of change managers. Chevron needs an outside replacement for bb, someone with technical background and strong leadership to get the company out of the current IT conundrum
Trying to say these IT folks are true engineers....what a joke....or is this more chevron woke...
How does this improve things?