The job boards hereabouts are full of the outsourced "maintain legacy enterprise systems" crap jobs.
As someone who has both done Big Freaking Enterprise for the last three years and managed outsourcing of the same (to India, actually): please, find a way to fill my customer's needs in a manner which doesn't require custom development and put us all out of work. I think there are many, many opportunities for eating the enterprise elephant from within. (You also have to be able to sell them, obviously.)
" I think there are many, many opportunities for eating the enterprise elephant from within. "
Yes I agree. I guess systems can be lucrative and soul killing at the same time.
I worked in enterprise dev for many years, last at ThoughtWorks (which is a fine company in that space - If I ever had to outsource enterprise software, I'd probably use TW (being somewhat selective about team composition) or a team of ex TW ers. I would never outsource to Wipro Infosys et al).
I grew bored of enterprise dev and dropped it completely almost 8 years ago.
Enterprise systems are interesting when you own the enterprise! When you have to work on outsourced crap codebases, life sucks.
Yes I agree. I guess systems can be lucrative and soul killing at the same time.
It's probably not a coincidence that soul killing things are also lucrative.
I'm wondering though why there aren't more people eating at the elephant. Replacing broken systems with new, non-broken ones doesn't strike me as soul killing, and it's clearly potentially very lucrative.
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The job boards hereabouts are full of the outsourced "maintain legacy enterprise systems" crap jobs.
As someone who has both done Big Freaking Enterprise for the last three years and managed outsourcing of the same (to India, actually): please, find a way to fill my customer's needs in a manner which doesn't require custom development and put us all out of work. I think there are many, many opportunities for eating the enterprise elephant from within. (You also have to be able to sell them, obviously.)
" I think there are many, many opportunities for eating the enterprise elephant from within. "
Yes I agree. I guess systems can be lucrative and soul killing at the same time.
I worked in enterprise dev for many years, last at ThoughtWorks (which is a fine company in that space - If I ever had to outsource enterprise software, I'd probably use TW (being somewhat selective about team composition) or a team of ex TW ers. I would never outsource to Wipro Infosys et al).
I grew bored of enterprise dev and dropped it completely almost 8 years ago.
Enterprise systems are interesting when you own the enterprise! When you have to work on outsourced crap codebases, life sucks.
Yes I agree. I guess systems can be lucrative and soul killing at the same time.
It's probably not a coincidence that soul killing things are also lucrative.
I'm wondering though why there aren't more people eating at the elephant. Replacing broken systems with new, non-broken ones doesn't strike me as soul killing, and it's clearly potentially very lucrative.