Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer?
by ethbro on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:26PM
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I never thought about it, but "IT / development is crap in legacy industries" follows as a tautology from your perspective.
If the only way to effectively perform the job (in the broader, department sense) is with political cover.
And if political cover is only apportioned in a zero-sum game of high level positions.
And if there are legacy industries in which those positions are, and have been for decades, apportioned to predefined departments (notably standardized before the information revolution).
Then those legacy industries are going to have insufficient political cover over IT/development. And therefore terrible performance.
My current employer recently had a security epiphany, and they definitely empowered a reorganized security department to make necessary changes. But I'm sure there were many points where "VP of X" could have squashed a necessary security change, had security not been of equal seniority.
If the only way to effectively perform the job (in the broader, department sense) is with political cover.
And if political cover is only apportioned in a zero-sum game of high level positions.
And if there are legacy industries in which those positions are, and have been for decades, apportioned to predefined departments (notably standardized before the information revolution).
Then those legacy industries are going to have insufficient political cover over IT/development. And therefore terrible performance.
My current employer recently had a security epiphany, and they definitely empowered a reorganized security department to make necessary changes. But I'm sure there were many points where "VP of X" could have squashed a necessary security change, had security not been of equal seniority.