RE: DBA place in the business (was RE: DBA work load)

We have a similar structure
Infrastructure - DBA

• Sys Admin
• Network Admin

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Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 7:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hello Peter

We have an infrastructure division that divides into two departments: system programming and DBA.

Organization chart for us will be:
CEO -> CIO -> Infrastructure -> DBA.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:13 AM

>
> I've found the thread on DBA workload valuable and interesting. It
endorses
> points made repeatedly over the past years, basically the highly variable
> nature of the job.
>
> This variability is giving us a small problem. Our dba work (shared
between
> two of us) tends to function in the background, and of course because we
do
> it so damn well (!!), our impact on the running of the organisation is
> pretty low. Kind of 'reverse exception' effect, if you will.
>
> There is now a desire to formalise the role of the dba function within the
> organisation, and nobody has the first idea of how to define, in an
> organisational / structural sense just how the dba role slots in. I'm
> talking about organsiational charts, herarchies etc, that sort of thing.
Not
> just across the org, but particularly within the IT domain too.
> Specifically, dba impacts from the low-level hardware side, right up to
> application development, with everything in between. And that already
spans
> several existing lines of management responsibility. Our problem has added
> spice as we are (trying) to operate a matrix management system, which
> repeatedly throws up intriguing political dimensions.
>
> Anybody ever been down this particular route?
>
> Any thoughts much appreciated,
>
> peter
> edinburgh
>
>
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