Stretching the budget
Our office has somewhat more than fifty people working every day on computers. More than fifty machines, not counting the server room. Machines wear out, get old, leave the productivity curve in decline, so they have to be replaced. Right.
Budgets are tight, so we “renew” a subset of that fleet every year. Never as many as we would like, and without ruffling any more feathers than necessary. You see, even though none of those users would be asked to join a “power-geek club”, all are aware if a neighbour has a more powerful machine. You get the picture.
My mission, which I have chosen to accept, is to rotate eight machines into that fleet, while handing down the older machine to a less fortunate, and then moving the oldest machine elsewhere. Eight becomes two dozen, in the stroke of a pen. Every machine requires a transfer of someone’s identity, while disrupting their routine as little as possible.
Well, I’ve got my game plan on paper, and if nobody jumps the queue (remember the politics I mentioned earlier) this will get done. God give me strength!
