Distribution Lists, Part II
I've been put on a new project, which is taking a lot of my time. And it's the end of the year, which means I have training to take (6 classes put on my roster in the past 18 hours alone), and performance evaluations to think about ("I was able to not get totally lost in my first 4 months of work here. I also managed to figure out that we make really big things that fly.")
This means that the distribution (list serv) stuff I talked about earlier has been put on a back burner. I'm thinking about it, but that's about as far as I get. I promise there will be pretty pictures before the year is out. I was at a big-big meeting about one of the projects, and the project lead mentioned that there were about 4,000 company people working on the project, then about 1,500 people from other companies working on it. However, in looking at the distribution lists covering the project, there are about 6,500 people on them. Which begs the question, who are the extra 1,000 people? What are they doing?
My sense is that they are support people -- office assistants, schedulers (schedulers will no doubt be the subject of a future post. They're important, but I still can't figure out why), plus everyone who does tools & process support. Or, it could also just be people in other parts of the organization that aren't directly part of this project (supplier & customer management, shared services, and possibly the factory.) I'd probably need to spend some time running the DL list people against the company directory to figure out where people "live" within the organization. Which is not as easy at it may sound. People here have two homes, their organizational home and their accounting home. You may live one place, but the money for you comes from another.
Deep down, I know I'm going to have to learning accounting one of these days.
This means that the distribution (list serv) stuff I talked about earlier has been put on a back burner. I'm thinking about it, but that's about as far as I get. I promise there will be pretty pictures before the year is out. I was at a big-big meeting about one of the projects, and the project lead mentioned that there were about 4,000 company people working on the project, then about 1,500 people from other companies working on it. However, in looking at the distribution lists covering the project, there are about 6,500 people on them. Which begs the question, who are the extra 1,000 people? What are they doing?
My sense is that they are support people -- office assistants, schedulers (schedulers will no doubt be the subject of a future post. They're important, but I still can't figure out why), plus everyone who does tools & process support. Or, it could also just be people in other parts of the organization that aren't directly part of this project (supplier & customer management, shared services, and possibly the factory.) I'd probably need to spend some time running the DL list people against the company directory to figure out where people "live" within the organization. Which is not as easy at it may sound. People here have two homes, their organizational home and their accounting home. You may live one place, but the money for you comes from another.
Deep down, I know I'm going to have to learning accounting one of these days.
posted by MJH at 11:00 AM
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