Re:The collaboration curse
by JetSetWilly on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:58PM
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Many large businesses don't seem to optimise globally. Perhaps the real estate or facilities part of the business sets itself a target to reduce costs by 20%, they execute the plan and at end of year point out their savings and managers get a bonus.
Why should they care if it means that the software devs in a completely different part of the business are now less productive? Most large organisations are so dysfunctional that the negatively impacted parts of the business can't fight back against bean counters from elsewhere.
This is playing out at my work right now with virtual desktops being imposed on all developers, even though it means that projects that used to take 1 min to compile now often take 15 mins to compile. Crazy.
Good point.
Whenever this topic comes up I wonder why would a business risk de-valuing one of its biggest investments (payroll) by creating a potentially productivity killing environment. But if programming is now considered a cost centre (like clerks were in their day), I wonder what would be considered the profit centre of a software company?