[Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency bloat!

[BRM]

Well put. Build the business case that they add appropriate support for developers - even if it's simply being added to a special 'developers' group to get the extra permissions.
But most likely, you'll find that it isn't just developers that are having that problem - which can actually be fortunate as some PHB's might decide to just axe the group complaining until the realize its everyone.

Ben



>________________________________
> From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
>To: interest at qt-project.org 
>Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency bloat!
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>
>On quinta-feira, 11 de abril de 2013 12.55.21, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
>> If you are one of less than a dozen people who could conceivably use this
>> kind  of access and there are over 10000 other employees who definitely do
>> not need it, a large company IT department tends to have a kind of
>> perspective that may seem condescending to you. Compared with those
>> thousands of others, the protection of production equipment, and protecting
>> their own backsides you find yourself at a severely limited priority.
>> 
>> Reality Sucks A Lot.
>
>I know... unfortunately, reality sucks in those cases.
>
>But it will never change if we bow down and accept it.
>
>Whenever you're faced with such a problem, make sure your manager knows it. 
>Put it in bold letters in your status reports like "work compromised" and 
>"unable to make all deliverables". Report to your manager how much down time 
>you had waiting for a solution that didn't come, how it impacted your work, 
>etc.
>
>I'm not asking anyone to risk their job security. But work with your manager 
>and let them know that you're not getting the infrastructure and tools to do 
>your job effectively.
>
>If you can, work with the manager to produce some numbers showing the company 
>how much time is wasted by you and your colleagues and convert that to money. 
>The total of the waste in a department might be enough to get some changes 
>started.
>
>-- 
>Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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