I’m definitely aware now. We’re global and that means even more overhead with multiple regulatory bodies. Our products are several years to their first market, and at least another year for the global rollout.
And I’m just over here writing software and trying to reduce toil for these insane people who hand-roll excel files like they’re databases and applications.
If your company was anything like mine find a group of people who you work well with in your normal departments and try to use them whenever possible. For example basically every document released needed a signature from manufacturing, R&D, regulatory, quality. Technically I would contact the manager of each department with quick overview and ask them to assign someone, but I would also include a quick note like “I would appreciate if John could be assigned to this if he has availability”. Typically I would also typically of already contacted John and checked if he had availability and if it was within his ability, typically they were willing but sometimes was told stuff like “I would love to but I’m on vacation for 2 weeks starting Monday” or “I could but I haven’t work on fault tolerance stack up analysis since college, I recommend Tim as he can give a more thorough review of your analysis”. All good things to know before starting out on a project.
Also if you need something done quickly prepare ahead and alert everyone and typically people will comply but don’t use this too often. For example one time we had an improvement project, we were told we could use a Friday but report had to be completed and released before Friday morning or people’s surgeries would need to be delayed(long story how we got in that situation). I wrote the whole report the week before assuming everything went smoothly, only thing missing was the specific numbers from the test. I sent it out the week before and asked for a pre-review so everyone agreed on the verbiage. I wrote a macro script to do all the analysis and verified it work with previous data sets compared to manual analysis. Test took 6 hours to run, finishing of report took 10 minutes, sent out for review to all signatories and cc’d my boss, the director and the dvp emphasizing urgency. Dvp replied all throwing his weight behind it. Everything was approved and released with an hour to spare before eod. I only did that sort of thing 5 times over 8 years in that role so people respected my request. I know people who said everything was urgent and no matter what the real priority was it got put into the normal queue for most people. Typically I budgeted a week just for reviews in my timeline, we got that one done in about 35 minutes.
I’m definitely aware now. We’re global and that means even more overhead with multiple regulatory bodies. Our products are several years to their first market, and at least another year for the global rollout.
And I’m just over here writing software and trying to reduce toil for these insane people who hand-roll excel files like they’re databases and applications.
If your company was anything like mine find a group of people who you work well with in your normal departments and try to use them whenever possible. For example basically every document released needed a signature from manufacturing, R&D, regulatory, quality. Technically I would contact the manager of each department with quick overview and ask them to assign someone, but I would also include a quick note like “I would appreciate if John could be assigned to this if he has availability”. Typically I would also typically of already contacted John and checked if he had availability and if it was within his ability, typically they were willing but sometimes was told stuff like “I would love to but I’m on vacation for 2 weeks starting Monday” or “I could but I haven’t work on fault tolerance stack up analysis since college, I recommend Tim as he can give a more thorough review of your analysis”. All good things to know before starting out on a project.
Also if you need something done quickly prepare ahead and alert everyone and typically people will comply but don’t use this too often. For example one time we had an improvement project, we were told we could use a Friday but report had to be completed and released before Friday morning or people’s surgeries would need to be delayed(long story how we got in that situation). I wrote the whole report the week before assuming everything went smoothly, only thing missing was the specific numbers from the test. I sent it out the week before and asked for a pre-review so everyone agreed on the verbiage. I wrote a macro script to do all the analysis and verified it work with previous data sets compared to manual analysis. Test took 6 hours to run, finishing of report took 10 minutes, sent out for review to all signatories and cc’d my boss, the director and the dvp emphasizing urgency. Dvp replied all throwing his weight behind it. Everything was approved and released with an hour to spare before eod. I only did that sort of thing 5 times over 8 years in that role so people respected my request. I know people who said everything was urgent and no matter what the real priority was it got put into the normal queue for most people. Typically I budgeted a week just for reviews in my timeline, we got that one done in about 35 minutes.