"Vinayak Hegde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it has also something to do with people preferring short-term > solutions (quick-fix it now, we can look at it later) over long-term > (If we spend time now and make this robust, we will have less > headache/maintainence later)
I disagree a bit. Most of the big IT disasters I've seen have nothing to do with short term thinking and everything to do with incompetence. You don't spend millions replacing working systems with garbage on the basis that this is a good stopgap. > A HBR article (rather the insightful comments) seal this type of thinking. > > Why don't managers think deeply ? > http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5952.html I think the article is correct that this is a major problem in corporate management, but I don't think that's the biggest issue in IT these days. The big issue there is a shortage of smart people, and an associated taboo against admitting most people aren't smart enough to be able to do a job as complex as IT. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
