Transition At Work

There is a power struggle going on in our division at work.   The previous head of the division is gone, a new one has come.   The new one is a champion of the Agile Software Development Method.  As soon as the Program Managers (PMs) heard that the old Div. Head was leaving, they started boycotting our governance group - meaning that they were not opening a certain type of charge number so we could use it.

This has gone on for months.   I was just doing what I always have with my charge codes, but now I got in trouble.   I got in trouble because there are fewer charge codes to use, and so tha amount I used got to high on one of the codes, and the PM noticed.   So my Boss, through some kind of weird activity he likes to pull on me, taught me to fly under the radar - charge to anyone who will let you, but only 2.5 hours.

So all these charge coees I thought I could not use (according to the old rules the Boss taught me) are now available to use.

I have 170 of them.   You need to use 16 of them a week to get 40 hours.   So this method gives us only 10 weeks.   What happens then?    I am not being given 16 new charge codes a week.    I am getting less than one new charge code a week.  Much less than one.   We will run out.

My Boss told me he is going to send letters to the PMs who are not cooperating that if they do not open their charge codes, the System Engineers will cease to work for them.   But the SEs need charge codes to work.   Most SEs work in an area in which they are experienced, which means they typically are working for the same PMs again and again.    Do these SEs have alternative work to do to get their 40 hours a week?   I don't think the analysis has been done to verify this.    The work-stoppage could be an empty threat.

In the meantime, I look forward to using the Agile method - it will breathe new life into my career

I find it interesting that I got written-up by HR for refusing to do something I thought was wrong-biased against me.

But My Boss can do this on a large scale.   He's made a lot of enemies.   I don't think this will go well with the new Division Head, but perhaps my Boss has gotten permission.