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Worked at a company that combined the two, which eventually led to half the dev team working for... the marketing dept. It was a horrible mess.
by kerblang 3y ago
Worked at a company that combined the two, which eventually led to half the dev team working for... the marketing dept.
It was a horrible mess.
- anotherhue 3y agoYup, I've seen that. Catastrophic.
- ssss11 3y agoReminds me of when IT reported to Supply Chain in a company I was at. For some strange reason supporting supply chain systems and initiatives made up 60% of our work…
- ethbr0 3y agoTo be fair, Supply Chain is 60% of a lot of companies' value.
- ssss11 3y agoThis was retail so we also had all the POS store systems, finance systems of course, payroll, collaboration (email, SharePoint and so on..)
- ethbr0 3y agoI figured it was retail from the capital letters. ;) And not diminishing the other components, but my understanding of retail at scale from working corporate for a moment shifted to "Supply Chain is where profit is made or lost: everything else is follow-through."
- hoofhearted 3y agoThank you for validating my comment above Kerblang! I have experienced this myself personally, and have contracted with numerous companies who ran into the same issue. The biggest issue I ran into was when the dev department started to not care about the WP instance because they don't work for marketing, and the marketing department failed to report one of their accounts was hacked, and a plugin was taken over :(
- cosmodisk 3y agoThis is poor business management and has nothing to do with the technologies at hand. If a company has a software product but the devs can be pulled into ' let's fix this button on our contact form' anytime, then it's simply mismanaged.