Comment by tjwebbnorfolk
3 days ago
> blaming the IT community for not doing better, when most businesses refuse to look past anything but shipping features
IT != software engineering. IT is a business function that manages a company's internal information. Software engineering is a time-tested process of building software.
A lot of projects fail because management thinks that IT is a software engineering department. It is not. It never was, and it never will be. Its incentives will never be aligned such that software engineering projects are set up for success.
The success rate of implementing software outside of IT and dragging them along later is much higher than implementing it through IT from the beginning.
I understand, but also, IT is an umbrella term for a wider industry that includes your definition of IT, software, and anything adjacent. If you read the article, you'll see it's the latter being referenced, and why I chose that terminology.
> The success rate of implementing software outside of IT and dragging them along later is much higher than implementing it through IT from the beginning.
That's a pretty strong statement. Isn't that the opposite of why the devops movement started?