Redefining software development

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yes, more realism would be great

I think absolutely where the money is moving in IT is towards more business alignment...definately. The problem is we have CEO's and management trying to "oversimply" IT thats actually deepening and widening with each passing day...like the Mississippi River. And its full of fish!

Information technology is getting implemented into everything now....all forms of media and devices, and business, and now business profitability centers are incresingly dependent on their IT departments. In such a world where users need to quickly know where their IT fits witheir needs, absolutely we need more how all that works. But a developer whos skills are tapped, and requred more and more towards patching all this software and data together via services, cannot fuddle around with people in a boardroom who dont know IT. We need more and more "tiers" of managers and business semi-illiterate IT folks in the layers between to step up and manage those layers and figure out how to get developers what they need to innovate. And techies need to get their own software managers to negotiate with the increasingly complex and diverse needs of the business group. Im baffled why no one in the business community today cannot see that evolving. I see it everyday.

Instead they cut people then throw Mary Jane who works in HR with Johnny who builds Micrsoft Sharepoint Web Parts in .NET and the two try and meet to figure out how to get what they need from each other to build an HR employee login system. They speek two completely different languages and will certainly make a mess together without management. I wouldnt expect Mary to know Johnny's needs, or Johnny to know Mary's job....I would expect their CEO to buck up and hire an implementation manager to help them define the scope, design the processes and manage both parties effectively. Instead we want Johnny to be in HR, build .net objects, and manage projects the CEO has no clue about?

Posted by: wildranger   Posted on: 06/29/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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