Comment Maybe its not all bad. (Score 1) 562
This my not be as scarey or negative as people think. Most of us IT types tend to take a negative spin on things.
A company I previously worked for, did the same thing, although on a much smaller scale. These meetings happened once every 3 months and it seemed to be pretty pointless.
Managment fobbed off any minor problems with the usual respons of "deal with it", and the major ones made slow progress, if any. After about the third meeting, the geeks got together and decided it was time to plan an attack. The plan was to only present problems which could be fixed without placing blame, and that could be fixed or at least "see progress" within 3 months.
Otherwise, in the words of my father: choose your battles. Even though there may be a many problems, its best that your department stick to something acheivable, and get EVERYONE to sing the same tune, to the one or two things.
By having everyone talk about the same thing to different levels on the same night, the problem will be attacked on many levels, and in my situation, I was surprised how successful the outcome was.
A company I previously worked for, did the same thing, although on a much smaller scale. These meetings happened once every 3 months and it seemed to be pretty pointless.
Managment fobbed off any minor problems with the usual respons of "deal with it", and the major ones made slow progress, if any. After about the third meeting, the geeks got together and decided it was time to plan an attack. The plan was to only present problems which could be fixed without placing blame, and that could be fixed or at least "see progress" within 3 months.
Otherwise, in the words of my father: choose your battles. Even though there may be a many problems, its best that your department stick to something acheivable, and get EVERYONE to sing the same tune, to the one or two things.
By having everyone talk about the same thing to different levels on the same night, the problem will be attacked on many levels, and in my situation, I was surprised how successful the outcome was.
