Living Reflections from a Dream

My boss is a techie geeky guy who when presented with a problem tends to jump in and try to solve it rather than put in a context of the current work going on. He just starts doing things or asking IT staff to do things randomly. As you can guess, the technical staff works hard all the time, but not much ever seems to get done. In the 6 weeks I’ve been here, I’ve been working on him to get organized. We need a list of projects you want done this year, we need to general timelines for these projects, we need to figure out the resources needed for these projects, we need to know the priorities of these projects – in short: management is needed, else how do you even know all of this stuff can get done? At first he looked at me as if to say: but that would take time.. time that could be spent on the projects! But I finally cracked him when I put together my own list, prioritized it and put who I thought should work on it and it was clear not everything could get done. He took my list, added 3 or 4 projects that previously existed only his mind, and reprioritized.

There are 17 things on the list. #15 is: Create Disaster Recovery Plan. On his schedule we are starting this in November.

I swear technical people sometimes are missing the common sense gene. I now have to walk down to his office and actually ask: there isn’t a current disaster recovery plan? Um.. hello??-----
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