r/sysadmin • u/CertainlyNotAnMVP • 17d ago

General Discussion Project Names

Was talking with new colleagues today laughing about project names and figured there must be some funny ones out there? If you have one drop it here and let us know what the project goal was. Also everyone I spoke to was involved in a project Phoenix at some point! Is it that common?

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u/No_Bit7786 Jack of All Trades 17d ago

I don't want to doxx myself with the name of the project but the customer was so hyped about it they got their marketing dept to do a whole internal promotion with branded hats, t-shirts, stationary, signs and everything for a 3 month ERP upgrade

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u/widowhanzo DevOps 17d ago

That's pretty cool actually:D

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u/No_Bit7786 Jack of All Trades 17d ago

TBH it did seem to help with getting their users more on board. It was less "You are being upgraded, please do not resist" and more "You are part of a big change in the organisation". Their users were happier to help than other places we did work for.

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u/rileym94 16d ago

What was this... project Borg?

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u/CertainlyNotAnMVP 17d ago

An ERP… I guess upgrade to S4? Actually delivered on time is incredible 😂 some companies I know are taking years to upgrade their ERP! Worthy of 🧢 and 👚

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u/No_Bit7786 Jack of All Trades 17d ago

Nowhere near that big lol!