[thelist] Enterprise Red Tape was: Web Based Employee Directory - prt 2
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Wed Sep 15 13:37:16 CDT 2004
Steve Lewis wrote:
> Ken's dilemma is far from unique, however. The question is, why is it
> so hard?
You've already said the magic word:
> political
:-)
The manager of the internal programming group doesn't get a bonus
for making Ken happy; he gets it for making the CIO and CFO happy.
And it may well be that there's a master plan in the works to make
the employee DB available through LDAP, or $DEITY knows what --
so why *would* the programming manager agree to do this one-off,
dead-end micro-project?
But that's why big companies foster "skunk works" development --
the "official" channel becomes unacceptably non-responsive to the
(perceived) needs of the individual business units.
Ah, the joy of big company politics :-)
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