| > Well, not sure process hell was eradicated My point is that process hell was not eradicated. And in most instances, we ended up with process hell plus micromanagement. > the business expects to be able to push new features through quickly with faster releases Oh, I f'in' wish . . . Not enough companies want rapid release, a.k.a. low-risk, customer-centric culture. If more did, I'd have more work because I can do that really well, but managers assume provably true things are magic, because . . . professional managers. > As technology has become commoditised [sic] and less mysterious That is a whole ton of crap, son. Tech is not lumber or oranges or coal. It's not a g'damned commodity because we are not commodities. Much as far-distant managers of funds would like to think otherwise. (Or think what they do is different from what we do, in fact.) Nor is it mysterious. It's more logical than most professions, even the (other?) degreed ones! Ask me to write code to do FOO while robbing BAR to pay BAZ and I can do that and prove to you that it works. This ain't physics or psychology or philosophy . . . I can make it work and prove it works. No hand-waving. No nonsense. Works. Period. |
It has gradually become less of a bastion of technical wizards and more of a commodity service to the business and society at large, like getting electricity and water.