Comment Priorities aligned? (Score 1) 848
I know this ship has basically sailed and the conversation has moved on, but wanted to add my $0.02 to the mix. First off, I'm basically a dilbertonian Pointy-Haired-Boss. I'm also not going to get into the issue that you used your insider knowledge to custom taylor a statement of work to present to me. I have engineers who write stuff in their own time, like you have done. Most of the time it pisses me off. Not because they took the initiative, not because they wrote it in Ruby when we're a java shop, but because it didn't align with my priorities. I'd be angry at myself, because that means I wasn't clear what the priorities are. I'd be angry at the individual because they weren't listening and/or didn't come and ask for clarification if they didn't understand. So my questions to you would be: When your boss gets his ass chewed, is it because his team isn't efficient and streamlined? Has he ever mentioned your team spends too much time on process and workflow and not enough time "their respective punch lists" as you state? Does your tool leverage languages and software packages that you already have in house (care and feeding after your gone)?
For me, unless you're solving a problem that I have stated as a problem or in some way eluded to I'd say, no thanks, you're fired. Of all the holes in the leaking IT Bucket, is the one you plugged the same one your boss would plug?