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This is just my anecdotal view but it’s based on a few decades in non-tech organisations, from startup to emerging-into-enterprise to enterprise (my path was en
by EnKopVand 5y ago
This is just my anecdotal view but it’s based on a few decades in non-tech organisations, from startup to emerging-into-enterprise to enterprise (my path was enterprise -> startup -> e2e) and I think we’re a while out from non-tech organisations understanding the value of their own development resources.
Its everything from how IT is still often viewed as a “them-and-us” resource drain similar to HR but less understood (and this less valued by the organisation) even though 95% of the people in every organisation now works with IT devices that wouldn’t operate without IT. To how development continues to live in the weird spectrum of the business that actually needs something more than excel, being under digitalisation (efficiency) and IT (operations and development are natural frenemies).
It’s having to live in a 2022 where the “standard” solutions, the “document libraries” the “data-warehousing”, the “data-management-systems”, the “enterprise-architecture”, the “data/ml/bi-architecture “ is still just a bunch of really shitty systems and drawings that can’t connect together and quickly become a nightmare for anyone trying to do any real work leading back to massive excel usage and a constant need for “connection-inhouse-solutions” to make things actually work.
Leading to developers still being one of the best paid resources inside organisations with almost limitless tolerance for their non-conformity and rolling eyes in management meetings because most of us simply don’t understand the organisation lingo or the internal political power plays (yes, the bullshit).
Anyway, I’ve seen no change in change management to suggest that developers are going to be more valued going forward. If anything I think the want and belief in “standard” solutions might just birth the opposite in the coming decade, until the money managers once again realise that developers are simply necessary in a world where every “standard” solution is just as shitty as it was 20 years ago.
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- Animats 5y agoThere's a big difference between organizations where IT is a cost center and ones where software and computer services are the product itself.
- dijit 5y agoI'm preaching to the choir here but considering IT a cost center is one of the largest mistakes most orgs have. Nothing is a "cost" center, everything is some form of value center. If the value you get for the money you pay is not worth it, then that's fine, but it's not simply a cost. I think Dan North says it better than I do: https://youtu.be/hZFShSjAhlQ?t=1814 https://youtu.be/hZFShSjAhlQ?t=1814
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago> Leading to developers still being one of the best paid resources inside organisations with almost limitless tolerance for their non-conformity > tolerance for their non-conformity > non-conformity It's an occupational hazard: hiring-mangers really do put their jobs on the line when they decide to start employing ASD folk. And I salute them! (seriously) But I think the spreadsheets show it's more than worthwhile: when utilized appropriately ASD people can be absolutely massive force-multipliers for a software project. The question is: will the stuffy east-coast elite be able to withstand the blood-pressure spike of learning that their most profitable employees come to the office to work while wearing what's known colloquially as a "kigurumi" instead of a suit-and-tie? ----- (in case you're wondering, I own dozens - and I make it a sticking point whenever Amazon recruiters call me the three times a week like they do...).
- dgellow 5y agoWhat is ASD in this context?
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoAutistic Spectrum Disorder ...which at this point shares a kind-of-larger spectrum with ADHD too. We've come a long way from proscribed-comorbidity in the 1990s to routine comorbid diagnosis post-DSM-V.
- Kakashi4 5y agoIs there an actual correlation between ASD and developer output?
- fuzzer37 5y agoNo.
- hn_go_brrrrr 5y agoProving this would require an objective measure of developer output.