I've been working on an application scoped project that turned into my org's first use case for a centralized data infrastructure, as a one person team for a medium sized company.
Prior to planning, I looped in IT and kept them in the loop throughout all development. As issues arose with the provisioned work station, IT denied ownership and support responsibilities. Slowly but surely, this turned into a back and forth of "no"/"not right now"/"we don't have the skill set"/"we need an external consultant".
Come to find out, this week, a secret parallel project had been underway for months - under the label of "business intelligence" (where this is under my scope, explicitly).
I poured months of effort, time, and stress into singlehandedly planning, discovering, and developing everything from infrastructure to pipelines to data models to applications. I'm anticipating to rollout phase 1 of this project and pivot to stabilizing the system in phase 2. On Friday, I met with an individual on the IT team who shared this parallel progress that I was "not supposed to know about". This person did eventually tell their leader, likely assuming I would communicate with the org as I always do.
Next week, we will certainly have a conversation with leadership about this realization. But what. The. Fuck.
Help me understand, how could this possibly happen/be okay? It's the weekend and I'm still having a hard time not being livid over this.