Why no accounting of projects? Are projects a vehicle for money laundering? It seems many projects go on forever and never fulfill their intended purpose. With the inefficiency sniffers out in full force it would stand to reason that projects that are funded for millions produce a fraction of their intended results, would be cut. Are these projects money laundering schemes hidden in plain sight? Often times they have lofty goals and a timeline that are pipe dreams. It’s understandable that L3/L4 do not know this but L1/L2 do. There is a faint cry about cutting the budget and cutting the project but each year it is renewed with renewed broken promises. Doesn’t anyone see the opportunity and probability of corruption in play here? It’s always the projects with a catchy title, a non-technical leader, and a roster filled with TechM or IBM with relatively few employees thrown in to stomp on the money trail tracks. Can we get an audit in Isle 9 please?
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Projects are but a means to funnel AT&T shareholder money into SLT side hustles. Every VP has part ownership in a consulting firm that gets more and more work from AT&T during the layoff phases. It’s downright un-American. And I get wrote up for “conflict of interest” when I sell Girl Scout cookies.
Fraudulent accounting runs rampant. Target the books to get rid of the crooks.
Love all the PowerPoints with the fancy graphics that either make no sense or the numbers are pulled out of thin air.
Wait until True North becomes old hat and we will have another layer of technical debt. Most of us saw this movie before!
And the bounty program… are these people charging time to projects and working on something else? Are these bounty things funded?
They always measure the wrong stuff. That is 75% of the problem. Trust and believe, compliance is more important than anything.
Aisle, you id--t.
“Another vague, unfounded accusation. Why do you ignorant miscreants never include facts to substantiate your wild claims?”
Vague unfounded accusation? OP posed several questions and shared his/her observations or experience. I would like to ask you a question directly. Have you ever been embedded in a project at AT&T before? Apparently not. Apparently from your experience all projects start and finish on time and deliver what is promised and provide ROI. Hold my beer.
T2R (Ticket 2 Ridicule)
Stick a fork in it
The jig is up
Scam project
circlej--kBloat stroke
Gag hag
So a few things:
- The big bosses like shiny objects, so that’s why a lot of these get funded
- Most L2’s that have to work on these things get nothing for it other than extra work. They have their own projects to deal with so why would I put a ton of effort into some L3/4 pet project
- Most of these are too ambitious and the funding dries up end of the year, so they get scrapped and restart the next year with a new platform/shiny widget.
- Everybody wants something to put on their what I did this year list and this gives them something.
I agree though, most of these go no where and are pointless or never work as intended.
We have never been able to do project accounting right.
You must work on T2R
The name is perfect - "ride". It will ride forever with no real implementation or value
Another vague, unfounded accusation. Why do you ignorant miscreants never include facts to substantiate your wild claims?
OP did you just get hired? Nothing new, it’s all a scam. The entire corporation is a bubble of gas waiting to be fa---d out of a hole.
Shoot this post into my veins. And they always try to spike the ball on the 10 yard line. Trying to release it when it's not ready and call it a success. When in reality it's either being completely ignored, bypassed or requires dozens of productivity ki-ling workarounds.