This ba----dized Agile version of EMIT is a complete train wreck. Can't believe this is still on-going and all the managers are completely in-love with it. What made them think that having a "manager" who doesn't know their direct reports do can coach and provide development?
Btw those of you who don't know, these SDM roles are all made up. Google it. Those ba----ds who were created them are no longer with the company.
@2qpi+1cVmNXFQ come on... this is like saying if you don't like the performance assessment why don't you do something about it
@2kgx+1cVmNXFQ wow you must be or have been with Evolve. If Evolve doesn't like it why not doing any about it then? You just let them slide. That's why these comments call you guys fake.
And by the way, if Evolve doesn't really like the SDM role, why putting it on your training slides? Why following through? Why encouraging them?
Hypocrisy is real here.
@2vsm+1cVmNXFQ - I think you mean one of them was nice and help, the other was always over confident, loud, and threw around buzzwords they had no clue about. But worthless and fake is also acceptable…
Evolve by itself is a useless org. I’ve lost track how many internal tools they’ve developed, spent months advertising and disrupting teams for them to adopt, only for that tool to end up in the graveyard by next year. Their latest is already on that path.
As for the Lucidchart bros… one of them was genuinely nice and helpful, the other was worthless and a total fake
I’m seeing a lot of false attribution on the origin of the SDM role. No one that worked in Evolve invented it.
The idea of a supervisor without work direction popped up in Financials IT. The actual SDM title first appeared in UIT, but it was mostly a rebranding of the Financials role.
Evolve never really liked the role, and primarily focused on helping teams work with the real Agile roles.
As for SDM roles, I’ve noticed a trend of more and more people in SDM- groupings (they aren’t teams) and burying SDMs deeper in the organization. I’m not sure whether managers actually like the SDM roles, but it appears that some senior managers enjoy the convenience of a scapegoat.
Agile ExxonMobil is an oxymoron.
Regarding SDM definition out on the global search, I could only find one still-shot:
https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/meticulous-male-white-rings-head-mannequins-11103818688.html
@1xii+1cVmNXFQ were those guy making podcasts? there were like 100+ episodes IIRC.
Yeah, the SDM roles were soft landing spots for people that emit liked but kindly showed them they had limited time.
@1czs+1cVmNXFQ Fun fact - the SDM role is not part of SAFe, has never been and will never be. It's created by some geniuses who thought they knew everything. It was also welcome and implemented by stupid managers who competed to get it done.
@1ize+1cVmNXFQ There are two of them who always cover their insecurities with a constant stream of words. Good riddance to both.
@1rmp+1cVmNXFQ it’s “SAFe”, or “Scaled Agile Framework”. I know professional SAFe consultants that are fully aware of it being a giant load of BS, but sell it anyway because big companies just love trying to fit “agile” titles around their existing bureaucracy.
@1mwv+1cVmNXFQ Sounds like ExxonMobil Agile than real agile.
@1pvp+1cVmNXFQ it's someone who recently went to Lucidchart and now starts talking big about productivity like another authority.
What a remordial.
But Agile doesn't require any IT knowledge to manage it, folks.
Closer to crop management, wildlife management.
Overseeing. not doing.
Pieces fall in place - that's Agile.
Who thought the SDM thing was a good idea? Most of them know nothing about software development.
Lol I knew a lot of the consultants that implemented Agile. Most of them said the culture was so bad and management wanted to “ExxonMobilize” everything (like SDMs) that they gave up. Then Evolve had to take over and all those people are quitting left and right. We truly ba----dized it.
When Halfton gets her way and she is for those paying attention, teams will be cut in half and everything will go to sh-t. Glad I left a few weeks ago.
@OP+1cVmNXFQ Outside of EMiT it’s called a development manager. And the UIT people that created it are all still around minus one retirement.
No worries.
EMIT will be completely gone before the SDMs realize it.
A couple of years.
Most every bit of SW will be off the shelf and customized/supported by vendor.
IT liaison role embedded in the business lines working with external development/ clouds/ etc. Not a great role for an O&G engineer hotshot, but a ticket punched maybe.
In essence - ExxonMobil IT will be leaner, cheaper, better quality and quantity of success. Without a single IT degree employee.
The SDM's are the ones primarily responsible for our ranking. Be nice to them, or else!
I have a friend who was pip'd in the first great pip wave of 2020. before he learned he was pip'd, one of his team mates who was friends with their SDM had already heard, because apparently the junior HiPo SDM was too nervous about communicating the pip message and had to confide in a friend. this is the sad quality of some of them. I don't blame the individual; I blame the lousy management
A few of the SDMs are great people managers, but the majority of them are woefully unequipped to do what they were charged with
how else are they going to have enough "managerial" roles to keep these favorites happy? all these junior SDMs in their mid 30s and early 40s have potential of 30 to 34 and they were once the up-and-coming hot darlings, and most of them have been on short-term expat assignments to the US or business assignments, but they can't do any technical work after years of rotating in coordination roles. Now in the Agile environment, we can't have enough SDM roles for them so there are two levels of SDM - technical people report to junior SDM, and a few junior SDM reports to more senior SDM. they get to give ranking inputs or rank the technical folks whose work they know sh-t about. Their every day job is discussing attrition between this country, that country, west team, east team... contact VMO to ask for contractors resources, ask current contractors whether they want to convert to employees, in cheaper locations try to find people to fill the attrition, and manage PIP people. soon many of them will become tower leads to manage MSP teams.... please don't envy them... I wouldn't want to be in the unenviable role of managing MSP as tower lead... it will shorten life by a least a couple of years