" 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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" 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.