I see that ex boss of platform X is still in the company after catastrophic failure of her product. At the same time, 200 of hard working people from PX build team were fired. The captain should go down with the ship, but this rat escaped first and now attending conferences across the globe to sell thin air.
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This comment sounds like it is written by the people who led PX. Blaming the results on the leadership decisions before they took over, and they took it over back in 2020 - they had 5 long years to turn it around. At the same time they took over PX, they ki-led Bionix program that had some top talents and innovators who were sucessfully driving the automation for many years - exactly the profile of people the company would need today to drive AI transformation of the delivery. And what we have now - no plans, no automation, no AI, just few people in India left to keep lights on, and who honestly have no clue on which planet they are...
Platform X was just a rename of the CSC implementation of ServiceNow. They worked to put some service wrappers around it, and advertised it as insource, like open source inside the company. But they pretty much fought any teams that wanted to contribute to it. Then they added a bunch of extra monitoring, some interesting data analyics, and eventually created a new one with some Dynatrace in it, but still had the big customized boat anchor of the ServiceNow implementation. It may be ki-led, but I'm sure it will take a long time to actually die, just like the Pre-DXC SRA implementation from EDS/HPE did. Hopefully they've learned that trying to maintain a "common" service management implementation, as a service for multiple customers to share, is not a winning strategy with current technology. They just don't have what it takes to invest in such a strategy.
If anyone thought that Dixie could compete with. the likes of Dynatrace in observability, then you guys have to get your heads checked out OR you are typical dxc executive.
Drummer will do whatever is needed to collect his bonus (wfr whatever) - deli penne pasta will support him all the way through
@e9 I think pX is sh--e and no fan of Drum but get the facts right. Drum is the current leader, Drum ki-led it because it wasn't working. I don't even think he worked at DXC when it was launched. Guy before him was the one who started the nonsense.
This thread misses the critical point: the death of Platform X and the 200 layoffs were directly the result of Drum's strategic decisions and leadership during his tenure, NOT the fault of the current Platform X leadership at the time.
Drum set Platform X on a path that was fundamentally doomed from the start. The architectural decisions, the timeline overruns, the technology choices that were already outdated - these were Drum's legacy. The current leadership inherited a sinking ship that was already taking on water before they took the helm.
Blaming the person who took over after the damage was already done is misplacing accountability entirely. The catastrophic failure traces back to strategic missteps made years earlier under Drum's watch - poor planning, unrealistic timelines, and technology choices that couldn't compete with market alternatives like Dynatrace.
If you want accountability, look at the actual decisions that ki-led this product: that's on Drum's leadership, not on those who were trying to salvage what was already broken. The 200 layoffs are tragic, but they're a consequence of poor leadership decisions made long before the current team took over.
SRA was not stupid back at 2005. Today it is just outdated. Platform X had some sense in 2016when they started building it, but we failed miserably. If we made it in one year or less, like any other sane company would do, it would maybe work. But it took way too long, and it was already outdated before it was half ready
Btw - platform X, was never hers. She usurped it, when Bagal was delivery head.
One of our largest customers peeled out of the stupid SRA and moved to Dynatrace - suddenly the teaparty guys jumped into dynatrace and said that is platform X.
Now they are busy travelling to all dynatrace conferences.
BTW - dynatrace stock is at 40 bucks
what on earth is she selling? "lessons learnt: how not to try and deploy 1980's solutions in the 2010's"? its all ancient history, the market had already moved on even when she was pushing PDXC and Platform X, and has since moved on again ...