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Email address isn't secret, the use of certain tools for some however is. Enterprise is a different game than your usual early stage web/product startup. Politi
by ghuntley 14y ago
Email address isn't secret, the use of certain tools for some however is. Enterprise is a different game than your usual early stage web/product startup. Politics are real, exist and credibility is on the line when you stick your ass out to vouch for a company/product outside of the company standard. Base cost for this software is $5k/yr for one seat pack (20 devs), whereas the competition - Atlasssian is incredibly price competitive (10 users for $10, 25 users for $1,800) - keep in mind competition also exists in the form of TFS (ergh) which is free for MSDN subscribers and included in most enterprise licensing agreements.
- eli 14y agoSorry, still not sure I follow. So the issue is that, for example, the corporate office could discover that a certain department is using what--in their opinion--is an overpriced solution?
- jasonlotito 14y agoAn overpriced insecure solution.
- ghuntley 14y agoExactly. Perception management for those who will never read or care about the technical explanation but will know about it tomorrow when the industry publications they read publish it in their early-morning newsletter. Now imagine some poor developer stuck with TFS or Visual Source Safe right at this moment trying to convince his line manager to change to the "overpriced insecure [non-standard] solution." For enterprise, decisions on what tools are used (or shortlisted) are almost always made by those who don't use them thus why it is important to manage perceptions. TL;DR - enterprise is broken.
- pnathan 14y agoConfirm. Perception management is one of the key things that starts coming into play when you have people far up enough the chain that they don't use the tools. Perception is actually everything, it turns out. :-(