I fully agree with you that management at most companies is horrible when it comes to utilizing IT resources. Part of you wants to fix the problem. I'm all for

I fully agree with you that management at most companies is horrible when it comes to utilizing IT resources. Part of you wants to fix the problem. I'm all for you trying. Keep in mind, though, that you might just get absorbed into the machine you're trying to fix. You'll have to be extremely charismatic to get upper management to care about things like code quality and proper form. Management looks at IT, wrongfully, as a cost center. They don't realize, or care if they do realize, that poor code quality might make it cheaper to roll out the first few phases of the project, but in the long run make costs higher. Businesses think they are in business, rather than thinking they are in the IT business. Until companies learn they are in a hybridized model of software company and industry, they will never advance. So leadership is needed to move them forward. I want to do the same. You will need to establish a game plan that requires total company reform. Until the business individuals go to meetings with IT with the goal of creating the best software possible, and until your analysts go to the same meeting with the same goal rather than wanting to just plow through requirements, and until your developers go caring to learn the business, your leadership will be completely useless, because no one is listening.