Practice Like you Play
Thu 25 Sep 2008, 08:27 PM
Meaningless Drivel
So I have a new job and I've realized that they suck at just about everything that matters to a technology professional.
- Change Management
- Stable Environment
- Documented Procedures
- Code Review
This is of course, not unique to my employer. In fact it's quite common in one form or another. My point is that we should build technology organizations like we build solutions.
We want our applications to be logical, well structured, stable, flexible and lastly to grow.
As a developer every time I write something similar to what I've written before, I either use the same code as the last time or I try to find a way to make it better. This is really just self-improvement at the digital level. Challenge everything.
Strangely, as technologists we should be leading the charge for organizational innovation but sadly I think sometimes we're worse than the business units we support.