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Good reading. It reminds me of the wave of big banks implementing 'Lean management', supposedly listening to the employees in a bottom to top fashion, while ann

Good reading. It reminds me of the wave of big banks implementing 'Lean management', supposedly listening to the employees in a bottom to top fashion, while announcing a 5% cut in the IT workforce. We got the whole package, daily stand-up meetings, problem management sessions, whiteboards, you name it. The whiteboards where maintained for 2 years. The 5% workforce cut was compensated later on. But more importantly, It managers could brag about implementing lean management at cocktails, and laugh at the old cranks who had not yet done it. Now those mid-level managers are implementing 'the cloud', mostly by using shitty tools provided by the service provider they are in bed with, be it IBM, MS or HP. Milions are being spent. It leaves me wondering if everybody is within the bounds of the law during those transformations.

bradknowles 7y ago
With respect, it’s not millions being spent. It’s billions. Many billions of dollars. Why do you think they’re in bed so deeply with such vendors? And banks adhering to any kind of laws goes only as far as the compliance office says they have to. And if the Chief Compliance Officer says that you only need to do security scans once a quarter because that is what their auditor says, then by God you damn well better not be running scans at any other frequency, unless explicitly directed to do so by the compliance office. You wouldn’t want to actually be secure or anything, because then that would void the appearance of security. Been there, done that, seen it from the inside. If you’re not scared shitless by the way banks are run, then you clearly don’t know enough about how that sausage is made.