Re:The end of the IT department
by iuygtfhnjmn on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @03:19PM
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Simple - one of the developers does it.
The nice thing about cutting IT is that you save lots of money because all the time that your developers spend configuring new printers for secretaries, reinstalling windows on the bosses virus laden laptop doesn't count - thats all free
My new rule - if there are any non-tech staff on site and you don't have an IT person I'm not working there as a developer - especially if you are the only 'computer person'
There is always someone who is pressed into service for this type of thing. It will happen as early as 5-6 staff members, and it doesn't go away when you hire an outsourced IT vendor. In fact it gets even more insulting.
"Thanks for spending 6 hours fixing all that stuff, I didn't want to spend $100 calling in the IT guy!"
Re:The end of the IT department
by iuygtfhnjmn on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @05:35PM
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Don't get me started on outsourced IT ......
They came and stuck asset tags on all our IT equipment, then decided we were charged $100/year for support on each item. Including a $15 ethernet hub that I got because I only have one socket near my desk.
I witnessed the shift from a very restrictive environment (central SVN accessible only through VPN, all authenticated through Active Directory, limited access to servers) towards "the cloud" (Google Docs, Github, AWS, etc) at my last employer. While the latter has it's advantages, but it's not all rainbows and unicorns.
One major issue is user management. I quit yesterday (self employed now, yeah), who ensures that my accounts gets deactivated on all these services? With a centralized approach, it's just one click.