On Jun 26, 2015, at 1:05 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > If your company has under a half dozen to a dozen techies total to run > everything, a "cowboy culture" is probably correct because everyone needs to > do everything, and there is very little commonatlity between tasks. As you > grow and bring in more people, tasks get more repetitive and standardizing > the response to problems becoems both more desirable and more possible.
Having said that, I think it's important to note that every company that becomes large enough to standardize processes used to have a cowboy culture, and the processes they standardize just turn out to be "whatever proved itself to someone with authority." So the standardizations at these various companies are largely arbitrary, and often incompatible with one another. From a professionalization standpoint, this makes standardizing the industry as a whole the worst kind of cat-herding imaginable. At least car manufacturers are held to standards, and not anybody can just fashion their own chassis in their backyard. But that's what's being done in software every day. -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
