SwiftOnSecurityAug 25, 2023
IT career advice:
The tools you already have do a LOT more than your company uses them for. Often products are purchased to do ONE thing. Tools need both a motivated admin + one with time.
Learn what you already own and master it. I see this CONSTANTLY. Volunteer responsibility.
Show threadSwiftOnSecurityAug 25, 2023
I have finally been on the other end of this. I am the "Product Owner" of a bunch of tools at work. I'm spread thin on some things.
TODAY someone pointed out to me an incredible feature a tool has, that we were pushing another team to buy a whole other $90k solution for!
Show threadMoritz DietzAug 26, 2023
@SwiftOnSecurity Great thread. Not sure if you've encountered this: The tricky part is to have management of the buying team to actually listen to this advice. We've been in situations where we have told other teams "No. This product you want it absolute trash, too expensive and we already have a solution in-house, which does what you need but is run by another team in our org". For some reason they like "owning" a new platform (which comes with all the bureaucracy of owning software.
Show threadMoritz Dietz
@SwiftOnSecurity To me, your posts usually result in something clicking which I have thought about every once in a while. It's like a good conversation you have which enables you to fill in the gaps that you tried to fill in. With that said, I think that, at least to me, the evangelism part of being a PO to other teams and their management inside an organization is key to so many things. By avoiding shadow IT you gain so much – reducing costs and saving time specifically.
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