When one is tasked with setting up a project so that it is properly researched, and then handed off to the technical team, where everything has been reviewed and approved (and even when there are some minor last minute changes) you would tend to believe the project could move forward.
Not anymore. With such a focus on our budget, the mention of needing to save resources makes almost any request magically create time savings. When the business tells the technical people that by removing something minor in the overall project, they believe there are instant savings. Well, the bad news isn't easily taken by the business when they hear that requested changes save almost nothing.
We are searching for pennies here folks. Let us do our work and provide the client with what they requested. Anything less is detrimental to how they perceive our worth - remember they are paying our bills.
Oh wait, the client specific budget has been cut. That's right, let's all work on risk & resiliency projects. But those projects don't appear to exist since I (and no one i know) has been assigned a project like this in the 18 months it has been touted throughout BNY.
Looks like a sinking ship folks. I'm practicing holding my breath to see how long I can survive.