Sorry. I started at Follett home office less than a year ago and your systems do not work well and hinder my ability to get my job done. Blame whoever you want, but the bottom line is they don't work. At my previous company, they have technology that worked and helped us get our work done.
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Agree and the fact that thinking having 100+ people working on the same modules at the same time is a positive thing never coded.
I guess it depends on your standards. If a piece of sh*t is acceptable, then all is well. For those of us who used to take pride in delivering a quality product, not so much.
@10627: Sorry, but you obviously have no experience with good systems development or system project management and are not in-deep with the projects, otherwise you would not be making such statements except the one about previous Follett history which you are spot-on.
@10627: Sorry, but you obviously have no experience with good systems development or system project management and are not in-deep with the projects, otherwise you would not be making such statements.
Just like all new systems at any company, they will work out any issues with Infosys developed eCommerce and POS. Timelines were not good, but 100+ Infosys consultants delivered a reasonable implementation. At least consistent previous Follett history.
But nothing to improve IT mgmt at Fheg or fss!
I have to get the hell out of.this ridiculous companywww.
@10607: Less than a year? Try less than 5 months...
They had a new POS mobile solution that cost a lot of money and had a lot of resources out into it that was in the beta phase ready to go. The new regime comes in and said no we want another vendor to reinvent the wheel and gave "a lot of more money" to Infosys and excepted a new Follett POS bookstore functional system planned, coded, tested and implemented in less then a year. What does these people have their degrees in again, it's not IT I don't think.
@10586: I wouldn't say eCommerce or POS are "completed" by InfoSys. Those projects are a total disaster and are just another example of Follett's lack of any project management, resource management, etc. But of course they will blame InfoSys.
The best most marketable people have left, maintenance and enhancements will be move offshore once implementation is completed. The few left will be kept for awhile to support the soon to be legacy applications still being used but will do their to make them want to leave. They think this is doable.
Blow hard talk is great, but no one is leaving-just sitting by. But morale is terribly and totally unproductive. FSS is just sitting waiting. Top heavy mgmt and projects just sitting. No direction. Worthless mgmt.
Appears to be moving along according to plan. eCommerce project completed by Infosys, new POS project completed by Infosys, Tata working on ESB and a new offshore firm working on Coursetracks migration. As planned, once these are complete support, maintenance and enhancements will move to those development teams. 80 IT folks not a couple canned in last year, and more to follow as new projects go live. Blow hard talk was to get people to leave on their own to avoid severance.