The best place to cut IT organizations is generally at the top.
12th September 2008
Cringely speaks some urgently-needed truth.
If your boss doesn’t understand your job enough to describe it in technical detail, that boss is in the wrong job.
If you are managing an IT shop and can’t write the code to render “hello world” in C, html, php, and pull “hello world” from a MySQL database using a perl script, then YOU are in the wrong job.
The essence of efficiency is doing only the parts that are absolutely needed and almost every shop has at least one project that everyone except the big boss knows is either pointless or hopeless. Cut it.