I have had the displeasure of working with Cisco's IT. They are clueless, even when presented with clear requirements. Cisco is betting on software - the problem is their IT staff cannot develop the software that is needed. Their agile approach is a joke - minimum viable product simply means poorly executed code that will never see significant user enhancements because usability is always dropped because of the minimum viable product approach. Poorly executed software will at least help keep the lights on in technical services.
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Corruption is common. I worked in a team were nearly everyone was related. Cousins employing brother-in-law that kind of thing. Surprising none recognises this corruption.
Why not just give teams funds to use a managed saas software, cloud hosting, and google apps? Why have an IT department at all, what problems are they solving?
@1mxy Fire them.
It's the friends and family show. Most of these outsourced groups are family members I must work with at least 5 guys who are related. Little do they remember I interviewed most of them and all said about each other was that they worked together before but years laters being invited to family parties the truth comes out all are related. I just pretend I forget these minor details they lied about but will never trust any of them.
Are managers still accepting kickbacks from contracting companies in IT? Or hiring their friends for no show consulting jobs?
Cisco IT is just keeping the lights on. So many VPs are making more than $1M each annually for enjoying life. Redundancy exists in EVERY area.
The CIO can barely tie his shoes. IT & Operations are both a dysfunctional mess of incompetence.
You're deluded. IT is always getting hit.