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Smart Colleagues, Broken Pipeline

Senior Solutions Architect
Current Employee
Has worked at IBM for 6 years
July 9, 2018
Reston, Virginia
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

It was a great place to work with challenging projects when the technical and management aspects align.

Smart colleagues you can learn from.

Work location flexibility (can work from home).

Cons

The company is going through a major restructuring of its business. The new sales pipeline is completely broken.

The management layer is disconnected from the technical layer (2017-2018).

Project delivery and technical resource management communication is broken. There is no objective way to forecast work and ensure that the right person is doing the right job.

Advice to Management

Institute a culture of end-to-end accountability.

Include objective measures for performance along with utilization.

Have a technical roadmap for the delivery workforce that is known and available to resources.

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