Some parts of big organizations are absolute rot, though. They fail to deliver, deploy broken software, and can’t be relied upon to ever succeed at their jobs.

Some parts of big organizations are absolute rot, though. They fail to deliver, deploy broken software, and can’t be relied upon to ever succeed at their jobs. I have no power to fire other groups, but what I can do is list all the ways the other group will fail and how we have to handle their failures and what that means for the customer. Those groups will never improve, but because I look like a soothsayer, I will get rewarded and promoted. Is this healthy for the org? Of course not. But I am not the org. If anyone had my insight a few levels up, they would fire incompetent teams and let teams with proven track records take over. I’ve never seen this happen, so I’ll hold my breath.