RE: Question about time accounting at your work
- From: "Goulet, Richard" <Richard.Goulet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ChrisDavid.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:23:10 -0400
Chris,
I've read all of the replies that you got up to today. I manage a
small group of DBA's and yes we do time accounting against projects for
two reasons that I really can't complain about.
The first is that we work of capatilizable projects so they handle
our dollars consumption through some sort of accounting magic that's
different from normal time.
Second that account for our time and a number of other support
personnel against specific systems in a way that allows to justify
replacing one technology with another or an upgrade. Again some sort of
accounting magic is involved.
User maintenance is now being broken down by our new ticket system.
What will become of that is yet to be seen. But I imagine it will end
up as reasons for upgrades, replacements or maybe user training(I hope).
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
PAREXEL International
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Taylor, Chris David
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 4:28 PM
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Subject: Question about time accounting at your work
Ok fellow full-time employee DBAs I have a question. (Not for
contractors :)
How many of you use project accounting at your place of work. Where
every hour has to be accounted for against projects, or maintenance or
some other code?
I was basically told I'm not "visible enough" --- this is 1 year after
receiving a ton of awards and accolades for solving a problem at one of
our sister companies. Now it "appears" that my value to the company is
being questioned. I imagine questions like "What does he do all day?"
are being asked.
Usually I lump database support into 1 group, and patches/maintenance
into another group and performance tuning into a 3rd group. Now, I'm
goign to have to start micromanaging my hours. I work for an internal
IT department at a large corporation. I think we bill the other
departments for services, but not sure.
Anyone else have to deal with this?
Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205
Office: 615-517-3355
Cell: 615-354-4799
Email: chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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