On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Richard Chycoski wrote: > >> Process and procedure are what keep systems running - not leaving them >> wholly vanilla, or using workarounds that are put in place because some > > Hi Richard. While I agree with you in principal, experience has taught me > that large organisations can fail on the necessary discipline and small > organisations have a diffcult time finding the resources to achieve what > you are suggesting. I only wish more organisations showed be a more > disciplined approach to system management. I do believe the continuing > maturity of our profession is improving the situation though.
I see it as a matter of experiance (leading to maturity as you say). There is always the temptation to cut corners to get things done faster, or to get to the next fire. It's only after someone has been in one place long enough to have to pick up the pieces from their own mess that they really start to believe in the need for some of this work. Not everyone learns the first time this happens to them, and in many cases people change jobs rapidly enough that they never have to pick up after themselves, and they can always just blame the departed employees for screwing things up. David Lang _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
