There is a plague that is enveloping IT, and has for many years now, fed, in part by the .COM boom. It affects every project, and every firm that I have dealt with. The industry has it’s paradigm upside down, and whether this is because the IT industry suffers from some inferiority complex or it’s just been taught that this is how you do business, it’s going to continue to sink projects and destroy firms unless something changes. The plague is the fact that companies let their customers run their projects and make IT decisions, even if the customers are not informed or educated about IT. We let the customer make decisions about coding standards, features to add, delivery dates, layout, etc.
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