IT Wars: When we fight over IT, nobody wins.
24th May 2008
Cringely is always worth reading.
Most of the problems of IT start and end with bad management. I speak fairly often to technical audiences and one question I like to ask is simple: If you were hit by a bus tomorrow, could your boss do your job?
The answer is almost always “no.” By “almost always” I mean 97-99 percent of the time.
Think back on all the stories you’ve read about strikes at manufacturing firms where “essential functions are being performed by managers”. How many companies could do that if their IT staff walked out?