Corporate red tape

[kumir_k9]

I'm working on a database project for Monique at work. It started with a couple months of red tape getting set up as a consultant for UHC. We've finally cleared that hurdle.

Monique and her team put together project requests with all the gory technical details in the technical section. I helped them fill in the section that went to IT with things like size requirements, security, prodcution and development environments, etc.

Today, Monique and I had a conference call with a senior IT project manager to answer some last questions they had. These questions were:
1) Roughly how many tables
2) How much space was needed for the database
3) What security model were we using
Do these questions sound familiar?

The guy says to us at the end of the 5 minutes it took to repeat these questions that were on the project request form that *THEY* require, "Now that we have that information we can set up a conference call with the DBAs to answer any additional questions they might have".

This was a call to re-ask all the questions that they asked on their project form as a pre-requisite to have a conference call with more IT people who will ask the same damned questions. Aaaaaaargh! I forgot why I hate corporate IT.

Comments

[dunriver.livejournal.com]

Heh... let's see, you pulled me into the wonderful world of IT back in '95.

I've come a long way since those days, and seen a lot of unexpected things but, the day I meet a project manager that actually knows anything about the project or the technology behind the project they are about to "manage"... well, let's just say I'll let you know if it happens.