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> Big organizations tend to grow in weird ways, opaque to the folks on the ground. They sometimes make big mistakes and spend money where they shouldn’t. The
by braza 3y ago
> Big organizations tend to grow in weird ways, opaque to the folks on the ground. They sometimes make big mistakes and spend money where they shouldn’t.
The article is good and at the end of the day, it's a... rant.
The core issue that substance the main point of the author is that we do not have a scientific and empirically validated method for management in technology (IT). This is expected since tech is a quite new industry that surged after the late 90's.
On top of it, we do not have established literature related to the economics of IT to calculate the opportunity costs, average acceptable waste, association between cloud costs x productivity and delivery value, and so on.
Most leaders and managers are using methods that can or cannot work, but it's a discovery phase now in how to establish a management method that covers inefficiencies, opportunity costs, and value.
- RandomLensman 3y agoNot sure tech is fundamentally so different. There is typically a lot commonality between management practices of high performance companies across industries. There is also no reason to assume certain microeconomics don't apply. Some benchmarks might be different or perhaps still patchy, but I don't think that is really holding things back.