> What the hell happened to professional IT? At one time, very few organizations needed IT infrastructure, so the fairly small pool of very smart people was not spread very thin. With time, however, the number of organizations needing IT has grown rapidly, while the number of good IT people has not. This has been especially devastating at the management level, where the number of smart managers needed has grown but the number of smart managers has not -- nothing ruins a department like bad management, and the number of good managers is simply miniscule compared to demand. Worse still, the number of people who can judge a good manager is even smaller...
Perry
