Lovely to see one of the MS IDNA Group PMs announce a new role on LinkedIn. Splendid stuff. Do put the bunting up:
Now, the post is far too modest to mention a few things:
What happened to the previous PM. Mustn’t grumble.
What happened to the entire MIM team in Nairobi. Or the whole development centre in Nairobi, for that matter. Gone, the lot of it. Rather careless, one might say.
How many PMs and EMs have “owned” MIM and Azure AD Connect / Entra Connect Sync in recent years. I’ve lost count, and I strongly suspect so have they.
How many teams owned them. And I do mean teams: FTEs → Vendor A → Vendor B → FTEs again → no one. A magnificent game of pass-the-parcel, except the music stopped and nobody was left holding the parcel. Or the parcel’s instructions.
The tribal knowledge. Every time a team was shown the door, a few more years of hard-won wisdom left with them. Priceless, really, mostly because nobody’s budgeted to get it back.
The small matter of the sunset date. MIM is scheduled to be switched off on 1/9/2029, so this appointment has roughly the shelf life of a sandwich left on a train. Entra Connect Sync is being shuffled off in favour of Cloud Sync, so the same applies. Do pack light.
And we haven’t even touched the MIM SP3 release, which is a saga in its own right. Possibly a mini-series. Bring snacks.
Otherwise, a cracking opportunity. Best of British luck.
