Topic: RAWK IT professionals - any career advice?

[west_london_red]

I’m not IT based but I’ve had similar situations in the last couple of years. I ended up taking a secondment in another team that did have a bit of management experience. I’m back in my original team now and just applied for a leadership role. If I don’t get it now I never will and I might as well look elsewhere (if I can be bothered!).

That what I will have to look at but usually when teams have secondments it’s either the same job as mine in a different team or it is a step up the ladder but they will ear mark someone in that team, understandably they want to develop their own rather then someone from another team, but I will apply regardless next time just to put a shot across the bow of my management as they seem to think I’ll stick around forever (I will with the company but not necessarily the team) so it’s always worth letting them know you have options too.

The first time I suggested I wanted to do something else to my manager a couple of years back he talked me out of it by talking about succession planning and all of that BS as he’s only a few years away from retirement but that’s resulted in sweet FA so far and when I said it again last week to him his facial expression was like someone who just shit his pants which was quite something for someone whose usual very relaxed about things. But it’s getting to the stage where I need to move even if it’s not for progression, just for a change of scenery and a fuck you too to my management.

[bradders1011]

I'm in SAP too - front end: BW, BOBJ and SAC and their various newer/older versions.

[Rhi]

I was part of the team delivering SAP for Carphone warehouse, £18mil thrown away because it couldn't do what their inhouse 20 year old bespoke system did

This one..

20 year old system? Ha. I work at a mutli-billion pound company where the main claims system was built in the 1970s (possibly in the aforementioned COBOL). They're talking about migrating everything to Salesforce but I'll be shocked if it happens within a decade.

[Draex]

20 year old system? Ha. I work at a mutli-billion pound company where the main claims system was built in the 1970s (possibly in the aforementioned COBOL). They're talking about migrating everything to Salesforce but I'll be shocked if it happens within a decade.

Sounds about right, Salesforce looks nice though, have they talked about the MVP yet..

My present company has tried to implement a new service management system about 3 times and gone back to the inhouse system, we're on release 3.1.3.24

[west_london_red]

Is Salesforce the new Service Now which is now what Remedy was about 5-10 years ago?

[Graeme]

Is Salesforce the new Service Now which is now what Remedy was about 5-10 years ago?

Haha can so relate to this post. Spent 7 years at Virgin Media using Remedy. More recently spent 10 years in Local Government using HPSM and then migrated to Service Now and now work for a Social Housing provider using Salesforce as a CRM.

Salesforce is good, we’ve been able to consolidate a number of systems and platforms. What it is not though is a Housing Management System (HMS) as much as they’d like to make you believe it can be.

[Buck Pete]

Speaking of Housing management Software Graeme

I had a couple of interview's recently with a company who develop and deliver a full HMS to your sector

I’m from a CCaaS background and Social Housing providers were our core business at my last position

[PaulF]

Haha can so relate to this post. Spent 7 years at Virgin Media using Remedy. More recently spent 10 years in Local Government using HPSM and then migrated to Service Now and now work for a Social Housing provider using Salesforce as a CRM.

Salesforce is good, we’ve been able to consolidate a number of systems and platforms. What it is not though is a Housing Management System (HMS) as much as they’d like to make you believe it can be.

I think a lot of these enterprise systems start in one arena and are excellent, but then they try to morph into something else and do t normally translate brilliantly.

["Bobber" Thanks :)]

Not career advice, but wondered if there’s any fellow network engineers or architects in here?

[Graeme]

Network Architect or Solutions Architect?

["Bobber" Thanks :)]

Network architects or engineers, I do both for a large global enterprise, just curious if there’s any other posters who are network guys.

Current projects are designing and rolling out SD-WAN which needs to be done by end of year and a new office in Germany for 500 users.

[Graeme]

I work in the ICT Architecture Team for Riverside Housing currently, but I don't get involved much with the Network stuff, apart from what gets presented to our Design Authority panel which I sit on.

["Bobber" Thanks :)]

I started out in systems engineering and worked as one for an housing association for around 8 years, but we had to do everything, from servers, PBX, apps, desktops and networking. Then about 9 years ago, I decided I wanted to do networking full time, moved companies and never looked back really as it’s what my passion. But as always, things evolve and I do see a lot of call for Solutions Architects now, where you might specialise in something but need to work with the whole lot again. Trying to avoid that at the moment!

[west_london_red]

Not career advice, but wondered if there’s any fellow network engineers or architects in here?

I mange the outsourced managed service provider who look after our network, so work closely with network engineers and architects (although it does sometimes feel I’m doing their jobs for them), not sure if that counts?

Luckily my manager is dealing with the SD WAN rollout so haven’t been close to it, but I do know it’s been beset with delays and is several years behind schedule and would be lying if I said I knew why, I’m not really a techy by training and only tend to learn the high level technical principles when it becomes operational and I need to understand it.