#tools

I can't think of a tool I'd like to see forever leave than JIRA!

We got rid of AGILE. Let's get rid of JIRA!!!

what a useless thing again

How is it more efficient to have gone from using one tool.... Saleworks... to now using two tools DSA & Saleworks to track the same data? Also... the seperate data in DSA & Saleworks is less accurate or accessible than it was when it was solely in Saleworks. Make it make sense!!!!!!

Advisor Gateway su-k$! They took smart station and made it look nicer and have more windows pop out. It su-k$.

Anyone who's spent five seconds using them knows that Excel is way better than Sheets than what you'd get from say, Copilot vs. Google Gemini. Are they trying to destroy my productivity? I already know the answer. You complete fu--ing mo--ns.

TRP is the only place I’ve worked where used a VDI; all other jobs provided a dedicated developer laptop. The VDI crashes all the time while I'm working. Honestly, how can you expect good results when the tools you’re given to build them are so unreliable?

Is there any good reason to have Cresta installed? We were forced to download it this week. Most of the time it’s in my way and the conversation summaries are not accurate. I don’t see much use for that application other than it probably training AI to take our jobs. Another failed use of Schwab trying to force AI into the business.

The tool sprawl here is ridiculous. There's so much overlap and no clear guidance on what to use when. It makes everything more complicated than it needs to be. I spend way too much time just figuring out where things live.

A post was made of: “Using the same tools.. a dev shouldn’t be building a system using xyz tools and another dev building with abc tools. Reduce the amount of redundant tools”

The problem is that someone up top needs to show growth and innovation, a year end bullet point is needed. Some vendor takes them to lunch and shows them a pamphlet of their product. The next thing you know a “high valued important product has been purchased for the company to do ”, but wait it gets better.

They then goal, or force, MD’s an their reports to use new and improved said tool. After a few months of this enforcement, it’s hailed as a gleaming success. It doesn’t matter if there’s other tools being used already that does the same thing…this is new, but wait it gets better.

Often times, its realized that either:
a.) the new tool does not scale up
b.) the new tool is too expensive on the licensing renewals.
c.) the new tool does exactly what the read pamphlet says, to a point. Yes, it inventories all your servers……but not vm’s for example, you shoulda read the fine print. Remember that old chestnut.

Over time the newly purchased tool is either partially used and\or is forgotten about.
Lesson learned? NOPE! Rinse, repeat. So long as these up top decision makers, these stellar shot callers keep thinking like this and fall for the over the top sales pitch, it’ll never change. All that you need to do is take Bob out to lunch at a fancy restaurant, tell him he’s awesome to boost his ego and the sale of the new tool to Citi is as good as done.

It’s all ok though, we can just lay more people off to pay for it, right?

What Ai tools does AT&T allow for developers?

I’m not sure if this is widely known, but the move to quarterly targets is driven by the One Dell Way tool launching in Q2.

The compensation tool can’t combine targets, so the current approach is to set one target on the existing tool and the next on the new tool.

From Q3, we’ll revert to half-year targets.

That said, it’s difficult not to feel disadvantaged by this decision, which appears to be driven by JC’s eagerness to release the tool earlier than necessary. We could have simply waited until Q3.

This change won’t impact above Director level, who are paid on booked revenue, but it does affect those that do the work who are paid only on shipped revenue.

What happened with the big push to move everything to this “new wonderful tool”? I’ve seen a couple apps move, but it seems that forward motion stopped a couple years ago? Any insight other than funding? Seems we’re paying for both now, Service Now & legacy apps?

SF and KB talk up Copilot all day long, its the reason we can rif so many people. But then they took away the ability to record meetings and get transcriptions. One step forward four steps back

Instead of new threads for everyone to whine about tiny little tools that they don’t like (and are entirely optional for them to use or not use) how about you all use this thread to complain instead. What a waste of time to spend on a website to complain about random sh-t.

How we keep hiring in flashy new areas while cutting basic tools we rely on every day? It makes no sense and the teams that keeps this place running feel constantly undermined. A lot of people are openly frustrated because the decisions seem driven by appearances, not reality.

Just heard all of the rf tools
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Overall , reduction in budget for tools.

As markets combine there won't be assistance on managing the larger area from HQ.

Good luck...

Over the past year, what has actually been delivered under CDAIO leadership? All I see is endless discussion on netting without meaningful progress.

Meanwhile, resources keep going to external consultants and tools that don’t seem to move the needle for the business. Frequent UK trips only make it look worse.

Anyone else frustrated by this lack of accountability?

They disabled extensions in Edge so we now get ads. This is the 1001 cut so I am OUT.