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It has been my experience that...
You don't trust what you don't understand.
Most execs do not understand IT, therefore, they do not trust IT. This will always be the case.
Simples.
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Well said. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Totally agree. Just to play devil's advocate though I'd say the same is true of tech though with not trusting or understanding the business side.
Jeremy Falcon
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We don't need no stinkin' business side!
Coding is art.
Coding is love.
A pity we waste so much of it on users
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Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: the same is true of tech though with not trusting or understanding the business side.
I agree with this statement.
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Unfortunately, the converse is also true... People don't trust what they _do_ understand.
They believe that some big corporation (MS, Oracle, CA) must produce better/more reliable products than someone they actually know and can speak with.
I can explain to my boss exactly how my code works and handles the unexpected, but he'll still prefer to buy something that doesn't do quite what he needs and requires six months to fix a bug or a add feature.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: but he'll still prefer to buy something that doesn't do quite what he needs
I never understood this behavior either.
We all are guilty of purchasing products that only gives us service for a small percentage of what we need, if that. The rest is wasted and hardly ever needed.
i.e. MS Word or Excel. I hardly use ALL of its features, ever, yet I have to buy the whole damn thing to get it. Now it is not very expensive these days and you do have cheaper products from other vendors, but most of them suffer from the same software design flaws.
I say all software should be Base+. You purchase the base software and pay for additional plugins, etc.
Anyhow, I digress.
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Execs don't trust internal IT
I could have told you that without a study.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Yeah, but the word "study" makes it sound all scientific-y. And we loves our scientific-y sounding stuff.
Jeremy Falcon
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I don't know, I think there's something to this. I mean look at your day-to-day; how much do you trust the people that you work with? If you're very lucky, your management vets every candidate so carefully that only the competent get through; but in my normal experience the people that work in IT are often wholly unprepared for the scope or environment before taking a position. I don't know if this is simply due to the prevalence of the canned technical interview or what; I just know that I've seen it more than once.
Article like this always remind me of an essay that Robert Martin wrote a couple of years ago about how programmers are an aggregation of individuals rather than members of a profession. Love him or hate him, Uncle Bob makes a point here that is very relevant to management perception of developers and IT guys in general. We are not licenced, bonded, insured, or regulated. There is no clear path that any of us have taken that can be reasonably assumed to be a professional template at this point. There's a certain Wild West feel to that which is nice and all, but doesn't do the perception of the discipline any favors.
The final piece of this puzzle is performance. Management is distrusting of internal IT often because they've set expectations that haven't been met. Now for in-house development, this often derives from unrealistic budgetary, personnel, and time constraints; but I would definitely argue that the lack of a professional standard is a major driver for any unrealistic expectations.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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He played Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff" (one of my favorite movies).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain
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He was the third one... [^]
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I got an email today: "Sander, can you mail said documents to John so he can test if the format is okay?"
I don't know John, but he is in the "To" field of the email as well, so I reply to all and send a mail with said document.
John's reply: "Hi Sander, what am I supposed to do with this?"
What the hell, maybe read your manager's mail right underneath mine and do as he says, test the document.
Me: "Hi John, I understood you were to test the format of this document."
John: "That's not my department, I know nothing of this file."
Well that's nice 
I send an email to who I guess is the correct person based on past experiences 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I got an email today: "Sander, can you mail said documents to John so he can test if the format is okay?"
I don't know John, but he is in the "To" field of the email as well, so I reply to all and send a mail with said document.
John's reply: "Hi Sander, what am I supposed to do with this?"
What the hell, maybe read your manager's mail right underneath mine and do as he says, test the document.
Manager opens outlook, starts writing a mail. Goes to the adres-book, types "John", selects the first one that comes up.
Trust is good. Validating is better.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The actual guy's name isn't even close to "John"
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insert random person here?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Where is "a,azpm/cp.4" exactly?
Try it on either Google or Bing and you'll see. (Google is better, it works out the localized form - at least for me)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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How did you even stumble upon this? 
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Well, the "a,azpm/cp.4" is the right hand shifted right by one: "amazon.co,4" Not sure what the ",4" is, assuming "4" was typed by the left hand. 
[edit]Hmm, the "/cp.4" could be ".com", still not sure about the 4.[/edit]
Marc
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Tablet soft keyboards don't have "home key" bumps...
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Try adding some with a hot glue gun.
Looks like you haven't had enough cofveve yet today.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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OriginalGriff wrote: "a,azpm/cp.4"
That's snazzy. "a,azpm/cp.4" takes me right to the lounge.
Marc
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That's "cpde[rpkect/cp," which is a bit more readable - homepage though.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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True, but the first, with quotes, resulted in a single hit - to the lounge. It's impressive how fast Google indexes the lounge!
Marc
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