Here’s another story from the late night. I’ve changed the details to protect the innocent, but you’ll get the idea.
I think most of you know that I started a new job late last year, and I’ve spent my waking hours getting caught up on how the new company works, how everything fits together, and all that jazz. One of the big reasons that I (and a number of others) were brought in was to fix the biggest problem; the company doesn’t have a real central control over customer-facing technologies. There’s a group that does central IT for the company (Exchange, SharePoint, Oracle apps, etc.), but there are dozens and dozens of applications out there. That means there are dozens of “network teams” around the world doing their own thing.