A couple of days ago I Went to "The Money Mustache Community" high level of the forum and it had changed - it was in multiple categories (not the ones I think of either), and the order of things had changed. A bit before that our favourite exceptional poster extraordinaire changed all his boxes from yellow to red and from global moderator to administrator.
Although the groupings are not those I would have chosen, in the main, I like it. My only real objection is that it doesn't all fit on one page, and because of the extra grouping titles, it has become much longer, so involves more scrolling.
What is going on?
Is the MMM forum being revamped by a rebel - not to put it too harshly, a SPY?
What other changes are we going to see? Do you have a change management plan? And is this going to be properly authorised?
Many years ago I worked somewhere that accidentally added one keystroke to everyone's logon sequence one day. This caused untold gnashing of teeth, and finally the computer department were told that the organisation were prepared to spend ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY to reduce the logon sequence by one keystroke again. The computer department were also told that they must never introduce another change without explaining the consequences to the users.
Three years passed. Different solutions were trialed, and none worked. Amongst other vendors, an IBM solution was trialed. The IBM box was replaced in its entirety several times as well as having many more minor modifications. Untold hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on the eradication of this extra keystroke. One day I was fiddling around with something else (that should have been entirely unrelated), and changed something that I thought looked wrong (I wasn't part of the enormous One Keystroke Eradication Team, and I didn't know what they were actually working on), and after that the extra keystroke miraculously disappeared.
But no-one had been told it would happen that day, so there was much more gnashing of teeth, and eventually the change management team pointed the finger at me. To this day I can't work out whether there was more noise about me having solved the unsolvable (inadvertently, and without costing the company a cent), or about the fact that I hadn't included the side effect that I didn't know about in my summary of what I was doing. Of course, if I hadn't even followed the rules, and instead done the change without any documentation, I am sure no-one would have ever worked out that it was my fault, or ever realised that I had changed something that day - it was a very trivial change. I can't remember what they ended up getting the enormous One Keystroke Eradication Team doing afterwards. Several months later I was retrenched. None of the One Keystroke Eradication Team were.
So I when change occurs without notification, I am always somewhat nervous.
