The bigger problem is that the IT staff is often so ludicrously underfunded, that they ARE a bottleneck. There probably are ways to manage team/personal product

The bigger problem is that the IT staff is often so ludicrously underfunded, that they ARE a bottleneck. There probably are ways to manage team/personal productivity with organization needs, but without time to dedicate to analysis, you get blanket solutions. Which is another reason why self-provisioned SaaS rather than IT managed systems are big.