Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT
by JesperRavn on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @03:30PM
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The physical world is much less flexible and forgiving than the world of software. A civil engineer can't say "this beam will break every week, so I'm just going to put a robot next to it that will attach a new been when it does". But you can do the equivalent with a process that crashes.
The greater flexibility of software implies a different set of management practices.
Such as social networks for cat videos and the like?
Come on, let's stop embellishing IT. Most of the times, we choose not to be systematic or thorough because we are divas. We like to think we're more special than we actually are, that we're too "conceptual" for metrics and that our horizons aren't clearly defined. This is - most of the time - BS. We just happen to have been dealt a good hand (working in IT, nowadays) which allows us to harness the large demand to our egos. IT professionals aren't artists or the like; they should be as systematic as other engineering fields.