> Last year I was bored and I started to break down our cloud spend
I read it thinking they meant to their cloud platform bills.
But you bring up a good hypothetical regardless. This is why people are not necessarily overjoyed to have folks from other teams sniffing around... if they think you are looking for "inefficiencies" all the more so. Getting laid off isn't the only threat, making their job a lot harder/more unpleasant is also one. Or just being blamed for being bad at their jobs.
To the organizations bottom line, and perhaps to your bosses, it's all the same either way. Hey, you saved money. To your co-workers, obviously not.
You've got to build up trust, that you're looking to make their job more pleasant, not more unpleasant, or non-existent.
I read it thinking they meant to their cloud platform bills.
But you bring up a good hypothetical regardless. This is why people are not necessarily overjoyed to have folks from other teams sniffing around... if they think you are looking for "inefficiencies" all the more so. Getting laid off isn't the only threat, making their job a lot harder/more unpleasant is also one. Or just being blamed for being bad at their jobs.
To the organizations bottom line, and perhaps to your bosses, it's all the same either way. Hey, you saved money. To your co-workers, obviously not.
You've got to build up trust, that you're looking to make their job more pleasant, not more unpleasant, or non-existent.