I participated in ‘Corporate Engineer Night #2: We’ll Become Beloved Corporate IT’ as a blog participant, so here’s my report.

Background

Since people from the Information Systems (corp-engr) Slack community that I’ve been interacting with recently were organizing and participating, I decided to join as well.

• Corporate Engineer Night #2 おれたちは愛されコーポレートITになる - connpass

Presentation Content

Sponsor LT / Tsukuruba

“To Become Beloved Corporate IT.”

The venue was co-ba jinnan｜渋谷のコワーキング・シェアオフィス. Thank you to Tsukuruba Co., Ltd. for providing the venue.

Sponsor LT / Jamf Japan

Thank you to Jamf, the Apple device management tool company, for sponsoring.

• 企業の Mac、iPad、iPhone、Apple TV 管理 | Jamf

By the way, according to the Okta Businesses @ Work 2020 | Technology Industry Trend Report, Jamf ranked 7th in Fastest Growing Apps by year-over-year growth rate.

Challenge LT: Recruiting Information Systems Personnel - Uichi (@hg4h2ry1)

Uichi’s company is recruiting 2 full-time information systems personnel, so if you’re interested, please DM on Twitter ✉️

また言っちゃおう。
クラウドネイティブな環境で,ITSMやりたいひと。ITILとTCP/IPわかってて、コミュ力あって、AWS少しでいいからいじれる人。勤務地：東京都中央区。リモートワーク可能。年収：500〜600万。短期語学留学とか研修充実してます。お声がけくださいー#社内SE　#コーポレートエンジニア

— ういち (@hg4h2ry1) January 8, 2020

Challenge LT: Corporate Engineer's Scope Too Wide Problem - Tsuyoshi Hisamatsu (@makaibito)

Solution LT: OneLogin is Good - Jun Watanabe@rela (@rela1470)

• KyashがOneLoginを選んだ理由 - rela1470のブログ
• Kyashの社内システムを刷新した5ヶ月間 - rela1470のブログ

Solution LT: Business Flow Understanding & Problem Solving - barusu (@Flat_flag_man)

This LT was by someone from シェアード社員｜情報システム担当者や社内SEの求人・派遣に新しい選択｜ユナイトアンドグロウ株式会社.

Improving Salesforce.com (SFDC) business flows by visiting the field and conducting interviews is methodical but important work.

Closing LT: 12ban (@12bannn)

• Executives can't read text
• Express value in numbers
• Don't seek accuracy

Since I’ll soon be on the executive side myself, I want to be careful not to be told “can’t read text.”

? The approach of quantifying “Corporate IT department’s provided value” in Google Spreadsheets and proposing it to management is effective.

Networking Session

When I asked the senior information systems people, “I’m starting a startup soon, is there anything I should do early on?”, I received lots of advice, so here it is:

? MS startup program offers Office 365 free for a certain period

? Microsoft for Startups

? Tell Apple Store you’ve started a company and have them issue a corporate account

? Apple 製品を会社として導入するための準備をした話

? In the early startup phase, just implementing G Suite is enough for information systems work

Multiple senior information systems people gave me the same advice: “You don’t need to do anything until you exceed 50 employees,” so I decided to just do the minimum G Suite implementation.

Starting with thorough information systems work from the beginning increases operational costs.

? Account management is difficult when clients issue accounts for outsourced projects

I heard from an information systems person at a certain outsourcing company that managing accounts for outsourced projects is a challenge. There wasn’t a particular solution discussed at the time.

That’s all from participating in ‘Corporate Engineer Night #2: We’ll Become Beloved Corporate IT’ from the Gemba.