> Our core systems still run on programs written decades ago and we have to pull people from retirement if, after having exhausted all other possible options, we have to make a minor change. The network drives have a top speed of 1MB/s, and hang sometimes for minutes. As for the business applications. Any minor change results in ETA in months if not years and multi-millions quotes.
That's what happen when IT is treated as a cost center instead of a co-leader of innovation together with business.
Bad hires, no real objectives, no liberty to innovate: do that constantly for decades and you end up in the situation you describe.
You can't really blame the IT guys that are thrown in that mess.
It's almost always a top management fault.
> There was a long silence after I showed them how they can get a handle to the COM interface of Excel in a single line of .net code using that library.
Looks like they are lacking a good tech lead, why not apply yourself? :)
That's what happen when IT is treated as a cost center instead of a co-leader of innovation together with business. Bad hires, no real objectives, no liberty to innovate: do that constantly for decades and you end up in the situation you describe.
You can't really blame the IT guys that are thrown in that mess. It's almost always a top management fault.
> There was a long silence after I showed them how they can get a handle to the COM interface of Excel in a single line of .net code using that library.
Looks like they are lacking a good tech lead, why not apply yourself? :)