Re:GitLab 15.5 released
by neilv on Saturday October 22, 2022 @03:35PM
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FWIW, the Software Engineering team might not actually like Azure Dev Ops. Misery loves company.
Teams can get stuck using platforms they hate (e.g., MS Azure Dev Ops, MS Teams, MS Exchange and Outlook, etc.), but not wanting to take the interruption and effort hit to switch to something else.
Or it might not be their choice. Organizations can also get stuck because, say, some non-techies made the purchasing decisions, staffed support people with familiarity/certifications with those, committed to contracts, etc. Those people are politically invested in that being considered a success.
Even someone who isn't politically invested would be in the position of calling out bad choices, which is awkward and worse. They'll also be putting their neck out, if try to propose changes (which would be corrective costs no one wants, and also might fail for reasons other than their merits).
(I'm talking bigger-company politics, because that's who tends to buy into MS enterprise sales. But if you're actually a tech software startup that's inexplicably using things like Azure Dev Ops, find out why, and get that person the compassionate healing help they need, while shifting the startup onto a more sensible and respectable path.)
Teams can get stuck using platforms they hate (e.g., MS Azure Dev Ops, MS Teams, MS Exchange and Outlook, etc.), but not wanting to take the interruption and effort hit to switch to something else.
Or it might not be their choice. Organizations can also get stuck because, say, some non-techies made the purchasing decisions, staffed support people with familiarity/certifications with those, committed to contracts, etc. Those people are politically invested in that being considered a success.
Even someone who isn't politically invested would be in the position of calling out bad choices, which is awkward and worse. They'll also be putting their neck out, if try to propose changes (which would be corrective costs no one wants, and also might fail for reasons other than their merits).
(I'm talking bigger-company politics, because that's who tends to buy into MS enterprise sales. But if you're actually a tech software startup that's inexplicably using things like Azure Dev Ops, find out why, and get that person the compassionate healing help they need, while shifting the startup onto a more sensible and respectable path.)