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I'm a sys admin that leads a weekly meeting between two departments for the upgrade of a system that has reached end of life and we are trying to get it upgraded to a supported platform. We've been meeting for quite some time now, probably about two years and not reaching the end goal of getting the system upgraded.
Those attending the meeting are all techs. I'm in Department A and I work mainly with contractors and a manager who has a technical background. The other department will be known as Department B and it mainly made up on contractors too and a Manager who isn't technical. Also want to point out that no managers rarely ever attend except when there is an major issue. However when I meet with my Manager and we talk about current events and various status updates, the response is often, "I thought that was upgraded already." Henceforth, that I why I'm asking these questions here:
Department B has some ideas of some new technology they want to implement, however they never come to the table with any solid ideas or any type of road map on getting from point A to point B
I would like to send out weekly updates to both departments and status checks saying this is where we are at, however Department B doesn't really read or respond to anything that I've written via email. Plus, I'm busy enough as it is. Their manager doesn't seem to do a good job in supervising his contractors either
Check in with both managers to keep things on track that way there is no "I thought this was done" or contractors from Dept B didn't get what needed to be done
Background on me. I hold a Masters in MIS and I am familiar with project management skills, most of my experience has been in IT Operations (PC Support, Network Admin and now Sys Admin). Alot of places I've worked don't seem to regard project management in high regards and there is a sense of it here too.
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I'm a sys admin that leads a weekly meeting between two departments for the upgrade of a system that has reached end of life and we are trying to get it upgraded to a supported platform. We've been meeting for quite some time now, probably about two years and not reaching the end goal of getting the system upgraded.
Those attending the meeting are all techs. I'm in Department A and I work mainly with contractors and a manager who has a technical background. The other department will be known as Department B and it mainly made up on contractors too and a Manager who isn't technical. Also want to point out that no managers rarely ever attend except when there is an major issue. However when I meet with my Manager and we talk about current events and various status updates, the response is often, "I thought that was upgraded already." Henceforth, that I why I'm asking these questions here:
Department B has some ideas of some new technology they want to implement, however they never come to the table with any solid ideas or any type of road map on getting from point A to point B
I would like to send out weekly updates to both departments and status checks saying this is where we are at, however Department B doesn't really read or respond to anything that I've written via email. Plus, I'm busy enough as it is. Their manager doesn't seem to do a good job in supervising his contractors either
Check in with both managers to keep things on track that way there is no "I thought this was done" or contractors from Dept B didn't get what needed to be done
Background on me. I hold a Masters in MIS and I am familiar with project management skills, most of my experience has been in IT Operations (PC Support, Network Admin and now Sys Admin). Alot of places I've worked don't seem to regard project management in high regards and there is a sense of it here too.
project-management system
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I'm a sys admin that leads a weekly meeting between two departments for the upgrade of a system that has reached end of life and we are trying to get it upgraded to a supported platform. We've been meeting for quite some time now, probably about two years and not reaching the end goal of getting the system upgraded.
Those attending the meeting are all techs. I'm in Department A and I work mainly with contractors and a manager who has a technical background. The other department will be known as Department B and it mainly made up on contractors too and a Manager who isn't technical. Also want to point out that no managers rarely ever attend except when there is an major issue. However when I meet with my Manager and we talk about current events and various status updates, the response is often, "I thought that was upgraded already." Henceforth, that I why I'm asking these questions here:
Department B has some ideas of some new technology they want to implement, however they never come to the table with any solid ideas or any type of road map on getting from point A to point B
I would like to send out weekly updates to both departments and status checks saying this is where we are at, however Department B doesn't really read or respond to anything that I've written via email. Plus, I'm busy enough as it is. Their manager doesn't seem to do a good job in supervising his contractors either
Check in with both managers to keep things on track that way there is no "I thought this was done" or contractors from Dept B didn't get what needed to be done
Background on me. I hold a Masters in MIS and I am familiar with project management skills, most of my experience has been in IT Operations (PC Support, Network Admin and now Sys Admin). Alot of places I've worked don't seem to regard project management in high regards and there is a sense of it here too.
project-management system
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504135
I'm a sys admin that leads a weekly meeting between two departments for the upgrade of a system that has reached end of life and we are trying to get it upgraded to a supported platform. We've been meeting for quite some time now, probably about two years and not reaching the end goal of getting the system upgraded.
Those attending the meeting are all techs. I'm in Department A and I work mainly with contractors and a manager who has a technical background. The other department will be known as Department B and it mainly made up on contractors too and a Manager who isn't technical. Also want to point out that no managers rarely ever attend except when there is an major issue. However when I meet with my Manager and we talk about current events and various status updates, the response is often, "I thought that was upgraded already." Henceforth, that I why I'm asking these questions here:
Department B has some ideas of some new technology they want to implement, however they never come to the table with any solid ideas or any type of road map on getting from point A to point B
I would like to send out weekly updates to both departments and status checks saying this is where we are at, however Department B doesn't really read or respond to anything that I've written via email. Plus, I'm busy enough as it is. Their manager doesn't seem to do a good job in supervising his contractors either
Check in with both managers to keep things on track that way there is no "I thought this was done" or contractors from Dept B didn't get what needed to be done
Background on me. I hold a Masters in MIS and I am familiar with project management skills, most of my experience has been in IT Operations (PC Support, Network Admin and now Sys Admin). Alot of places I've worked don't seem to regard project management in high regards and there is a sense of it here too.
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