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As someone related to the field, I see a fundamental lack of quality in in-house IT when faced with problems of this magnitude. Which isn't unreasonable. IT ev
by ethbro 11y ago
As someone related to the field, I see a fundamental lack of quality in in-house IT when faced with problems of this magnitude. Which isn't unreasonable.
IT evolved to be able to provision systems and roll out approved software. Maybe there's a development team or two to develop in-house extensions or software (though always viewed as a cost center).
Therefore, the department the organization's rules are set up to funnel you through is simultaneously incapable of fulfilling this need.
In practice, this leads to a ton of business specialty + devOps types from anyone who can hack Python in order to Get Stuff Done.
(For those of you that don't deal with 1,000+ headcount organizations, be thankful ;) )
- tdees40 11y agoI think the big thing at the finance companies I've been at is that corporate IT was created to enable people to use Microsoft Office applications. There is no real provision for how to deal with developers writing code, and forget about hardware.
- ethbro 11y agoExactly, I think the telling question to any corporate IT team (not the head of all corporate IT) should be "When did you last identify, trial, and then make available to users a software package / process / cloud service without first receiving a request from management that you do so?" In my experience, the answer is usually never. Corporate IT exists to fulfill requirements from above, not to explore how things can be done better.