> Certainly a problem, but the time you’d need to spend convincing higher ups is still trivial compared to the time you’d need to spend to build, maintain, and update the tool.
The amount of bureaucracy at large companies cannot be overstated, especially when technology is a cost or auxiliary to the core business.
I’ve run into this twice in my 24 year (!! good god, am I that old??) career.
The worst was during a several month consulting gig for an investment bank, and it was extremely painful.
Every change to the dev and uat environments required sign-off and approval, from sys admins who were in a different timezone.
If the changes had cost implications, it would have been far worse.
The amount of bureaucracy at large companies cannot be overstated, especially when technology is a cost or auxiliary to the core business.
I’ve run into this twice in my 24 year (!! good god, am I that old??) career.
The worst was during a several month consulting gig for an investment bank, and it was extremely painful.
Every change to the dev and uat environments required sign-off and approval, from sys admins who were in a different timezone.
If the changes had cost implications, it would have been far worse.