What you can get done in large orgs depends fully on your network. Without a network you don't have influence. All the people with influence in the org can be

What you can get done in large orgs depends fully on your network. Without a network you don't have influence. All the people with influence in the org can be ranked in importance by how large their networks are, and how strong their links with others are within those networks. So start building a network or find someone who does it well and help them. The kind of people who can pull stuff off are influential in one large group or have a connect with many small group. So find them or learn how to be them. It takes __time__ and lot of __work__. People like to believe there is some quick shortcut to gaining and exerting influence. Understandable because these days networks can spontaneously emerge with just a single post or pic or tweet going viral. But these spontaneous forming networks are ephemeral. They can loose their structure and integrity as quickly as they gain them. The powers that be know this and just have to buy time till it happens. So there are no shortcuts. Problems like the one you want to solve will keep showing up. This is not the first time or last time you are going to encounter this stuff. But if you want to influence outcomes, you have to do the work of building your network. Just like building skills, connections, resources to fix software issues. If you haven't built those up over time you can't just show up and say I just wish I could do something about this bug. And last point, as you build up influence pick small bugs you know you and your group can fix first. Prove to yourself and the group you can get it done. Only then pick more complex bugs. People who pick the complex stuff first get stuck in a trap. With complex stuff there is always someone else to blame, and that takes focus away from whether you and your group have built up enough skill to be working on the bug in the first place.