Comment psuedo IT and too many layers (Score 1) 591
Couple of reasons for lack agility from my experience:-
- IT has different meaning in these organizations - it has almost nothing to do with software development. So called "IT Managers" are guys who have crawled up the corporate ladder the hard way or guys with no software background whatsoever, but who are supposedly good in managenment, can talk confidently and convincingly.
- Count the layers between actual users and "developers": Process team, Business Analyst team, Change Management, project management, release management and database administrators. Just imagine explaining a small piece of development to all of these groups - adding one field to an existing webpage could take months.
- IT has different meaning in these organizations - it has almost nothing to do with software development. So called "IT Managers" are guys who have crawled up the corporate ladder the hard way or guys with no software background whatsoever, but who are supposedly good in managenment, can talk confidently and convincingly.
- Count the layers between actual users and "developers": Process team, Business Analyst team, Change Management, project management, release management and database administrators. Just imagine explaining a small piece of development to all of these groups - adding one field to an existing webpage could take months.
