Rethinking-IT
This blog post is about an observation I made pondering the slow adoption rates of several technologies in IT that I consider being game changers. My claim is:
Probably you also heard it several times before. Someone comes along saying that IT is a young and immature domain. That we are not yet an engineering discipline. That the way we write code sucks: Slow, not enough throughput, error-prone, not easily repeatable.
The speed of the IT value chain often is a topic in discussions I have with decision makers. The common theme is: The IT value chain is too slow. We need to deliver faster.
This post sort of complements the “Simplify!” blog series as it also points towards the simplification of the IT landscape. Still, based on a different train of thought, I decided to make it an independent post.
When I look around, I see two evolutions that in combination worry me a lot: