1. If it doesn't come out of my budget then it isn't an expense 2. If I'm gone before the baloon goes up then it isn't an issue 3. I can always pin the decision on somebody else 4. There's never time to do it wight but there's always time to do it over.
This style of management is neither new nor limited to IT. Read "Up the Organization." by Robert Townsend or "Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress" by Cyril Northcote Parkinson. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Phil Smith III [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 3:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72 hours to resolve" Rex Pommier wrote: >"move it to the cloud and that'll fix all our problems." >Maybe, just maybe, if your government would have allowed your IT department the resources to maintain your systems you never would have hit this fiasco in the first place? Yes, I used to work for a state government and while there was much waste, it definitely wasn't in their computer systems. It was like pulling hens' teeth to get money appropriated to keep the systems even reasonably current. I agree with you 100%, but of course the argument goes something like this: * We aren't in the IT business * The cloud providers ARE in the IT business * If we move to the cloud, it's THEIR problem, and they're 100% reliable* * Ergo, we should move to the cloud Plus cloud may come out of opex instead of capex, and that's maybe easier. And, of course, the person making the decision won't be around long enough to have to deal with any fallout. See? Simple, hard to argue with "logic"! For extra credit, read Dan Poyer's Dan Lenson books, several of which refer to "the Cloudburst", when the cloud providers get hacked, taking down huge swaths of infrastructure. ...phsiii *well, they SAY they're 100% reliable ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
