Impressions from the Past
Today, a lady got a promotion. Let's call her Gretchen. I had dealings with Gretchen before, however they were not good. Gretchen needed some content in the portal I manage. Simple enough. Unfortunately, it was going to take some time to identify her stakeholders specifically. Impatience was wining over doing something right. They wanted to cram the content onto every employee's layouts - despite the fact that most of those employees would have no idea what this content was. At the time, I still had the quixotic notion that I could keep the portal relevant, compelling, and relevant. I pointed out that having that additional kind of noise in the portal was not a good thing. If we waited a week or two, I could set it up so the tab only went to the people who needed the content. They said tough shit - we'll do this now. Fast forward a year and we find their tab that had to be pushed to the entire employee population that didn't mean anything to them, complete with