Comment Local? Try Global.... (Score 1) 605
I just left a company after 3 years. What amazed me(as a developer) was that not only did we have local admin rights, we had global rights. This was ok for me as I have an element of sysadmin understanding, but my ex boss who used to be an administrator but now runs the BI systems did quite 'get' admin rights and the systems we ran.
Every day he'd randomly reboot servers, install different software in different places and generally make administration and licencing a nightmare. Also as a developer he didn't really have a clue as to how to organize things properly so things like SQL Server could only run one database on one machine, if he'd actually asked around (ie the sys admins) things would have been far easier, and I wouldn't have quit.
So in a nutshell testing servers with admin rights, fair enough, online servers with admin rights, don't let developers near them.
Every day he'd randomly reboot servers, install different software in different places and generally make administration and licencing a nightmare. Also as a developer he didn't really have a clue as to how to organize things properly so things like SQL Server could only run one database on one machine, if he'd actually asked around (ie the sys admins) things would have been far easier, and I wouldn't have quit.
So in a nutshell testing servers with admin rights, fair enough, online servers with admin rights, don't let developers near them.