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Originally posted by milanbenes View Posti guess you lot have not worked in larger companies
agreed rules for a reason, but having been there and seen it,
there are a lot of procedures that could be rationalised
The process is like that because it's in everyones interest (except the shareholder) for it to be so.
You want a new access added so you fill in the required web form and it gets sent to a line manager. Line manager will sit on it for a couple of days as they are an important person and don't have time for this.
They will then question your access request to show their importance.
It then goes to the SOx compliance team to check the role for that user doesn't break any segregation of duty rules - if they didn't do that, they would have no reason to exist
It then goes to the outsourced support team for implementation but of course they have an agreed SLA with Big Co and so will work to it.
In the mean time, knowing this has just added 20% to my project duration and so I am happy to support in any way I can.
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Originally posted by milanbenes View Postafternoon all,
doing .net at blue chip household name companies I've seen a lot of internal procedures in large companies for things like, getting Users, getting port openings, getting disk space, getting load balancer configs etc etc
and it always amazes me that the procedures and processes in these big companies are more strict than trying to get like planning permission for a house
consequently, i am always amazed at the man hours wasted on following these draconian internal procedures in large organisations and the cost it must present to the bottom line
which strikes me that there must be an opportunity for some bright spark to go and speak to big companies at board level and explain that their internal procedures, their little empires are costing zillions in lost man hours and that they should employ business consultants to come in and rationalise all internal procedures
massive opportunity for somebody
Milan.
Interesting observation I've made as it's often part of my job, finding who these guys who do stuff are, and finding where their office is and you may have noticed this yourself: they change office location at quite a higher frequency than other staff, or are placed at a remote location.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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