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Can someone please explain to me what all these terms are: Enterprise IT, legacy systems, dev shop? Every job advert for a software engineer asks for Java + Rea

Can someone please explain to me what all these terms are: Enterprise IT, legacy systems, dev shop? Every job advert for a software engineer asks for Java + React (slight exagerration). Also I still dont understand why companies with their own software departments are asking Accenture to work for them. If Accenture employees are often substandard why not just hire more devs themselves?

Pasorrijer 5y ago
Enterprise IT: The systems that run the organization, basically everything run by an internal it group. Legacy systems: Any old software systems, usually enterprise IT, that are running your organization. Often 80's era in big companies, usually on a mainframe and most importantly, even though they are held together by hopes and prayers they usually do the job they are supposed to. Dev shop : derogatory term for a company who just provides developers, usually with poor oversight and project management controls. The problem with hiring more people is if I need 20 Devs for six months in a language I am never going to use again, not only do I need to hire 20 Devs, I need to hire the project managers, people managers, pay for their benefits or contracts, and then figure out how to fire or otherwise reallocate people with skills I don't need.
cgh 5y ago
A local government won't have the software developers on staff to handle eg a new computerized transit ticketing system. I've also seen Accenture used to handle SAP rollouts, which can be immensely complex. I'm not saying they did a good job at either of these tasks, but that's what they were hired for. Re the terms you want explained, just use your favourite search engine. There are legitimate and established definitions for these things. Eg, your bank likely uses Cobol from the 1960s in its backend and they would dearly love to replace it because all of the original source is long gone. This is a legacy system.

Pasorrijer 5y ago

Enterprise IT: The systems that run the organization, basically everything run by an internal it group. Legacy systems: Any old software systems, usually enterprise IT, that are running your organization. Often 80's era in big companies, usually on a mainframe and most importantly, even though they are held together by hopes and prayers they usually do the job they are supposed to. Dev shop : derogatory term for a company who just provides developers, usually with poor oversight and project management controls. The problem with hiring more people is if I need 20 Devs for six months in a language I am never going to use again, not only do I need to hire 20 Devs, I need to hire the project managers, people managers, pay for their benefits or contracts, and then figure out how to fire or otherwise reallocate people with skills I don't need.

cgh 5y ago

A local government won't have the software developers on staff to handle eg a new computerized transit ticketing system. I've also seen Accenture used to handle SAP rollouts, which can be immensely complex. I'm not saying they did a good job at either of these tasks, but that's what they were hired for. Re the terms you want explained, just use your favourite search engine. There are legitimate and established definitions for these things. Eg, your bank likely uses Cobol from the 1960s in its backend and they would dearly love to replace it because all of the original source is long gone. This is a legacy system.