Gary Varga (12/5/2016)
David.Poole (12/5/2016)
Our CIO stood up and said that our delivery targets were ambitious and have very little slack in them to investigate the best ways of doing things. He then said that those targets were set by the staff, not the management and certainly not from him. He told us we needed to factor in time to learn the craft.The buck stops where? That is a CIO who basically has admitted that he is not in control of IT. Good job for him that I am not a shareholder otherwise he could take his slopey shoulders elsewhere.
No, what he was saying is that all the estimates for tasks ultimately come from the development staff. Once you step off the IT development tread mill you have to trust your staff because things change so fast your detailed knowledge fast becomes out of date. You retain the general principles and can still spot when people are trying to pull the wool over your eyes but you can't say what tasks will take how long in new tech 'x'.
Being an agile organisation we have far more say in our day to day lives than the old command structure. It's a form of the Netflix thing where they treat their staff as adults rather than meatbots.