Description: Making sense of cloud computing and digital transformation
I remember the first time I worked for IT at a bank. The language in the workplace was all about control and process and more process. My manager was a great people person, which meliorated this mechanistic tendency.
Of course having worked there for a while I realised that talk and action were somewhat different. Undocumented changes occurred and leadership turned a blind eye. Primadonna technologists roamed like cowboys across the systems. GNU tools showed up in the oddest of directory locations.
Command and control was the edict but it was like herding cats. IT was managed as one big machine (Back in the 70s when I was playing school ground tiggy it probably was one machine) that could be managed down to the smallest element. Very particular and focused.