Comments on: How did IT end up like this?

By: PM Hut

PM Hut — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:35:31 +0000

I have to agree with reason #2, it’s amazing how IT people treat people who can’t use their system as inferior, with somehow lower IQ. How many times have you approached a developer for a change request to make something more usable/understandable by the end user and you get an arrogant reply on how dumb the customer is, while, in fact, as you said in #1, normal people do not think like IT (and vice versa). When developing a project, it’s always good to have someone with no IT skills whatsoever to test the functionality.

By: The problem with process « electronic museum

The problem with process « electronic museum — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:01:39 +0000

[...] you’re either new here or have been seriously thick skinned when I’ve ranted on about why I think IT is crap and what we need to do about that. In a nutshell: IT should help people. It usually hinders them. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:31:00 +0000

lol – yes…

As you’ll know I’m not a fan of spending too long on the shades of grey, rather preferring to go for the black or white in the hope that it’ll raise profile and promote debate.

Of course there is fine Pollardian discourse to be had, but I do truly believe that there is a major issue at the heart of IT which “we IT types” mostly fail to understand. Andy Powell just claimed that I only blog this stuff to get traffic – “how very dare you” I say…

By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:55:31 +0000

Michael Stephens spotted my use of “Computer Says No” catch phrase from Little Britain – http://tametheweb.com/2006/02/computers_say_no_it_says_no.html

I stopped using this when I tried it at a conference in Holland, and nobody got the gag.

But I still sometimes use the line “Rather than the binary view of IT folk Yes/No, we need to engage with the Hegalina dialectic so conceisely articled oin the Pollardian phrase ; Yeh, but no, but yer, like’”.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:46:48 +0000

Interesting, although I don’t think of IT to be that bad. I mean, you got everywhere those who are against the big changes. And many system/network/whatever IT changes are huge and potential job-killers. Obviously, the extremes are most likely not to be wanted by the majority.

But in general you’re right we like new things, interesting changes, new solutions to play with – but everybody does. That’s our nature.

One negative.. big organisations need ages to change. That’s awful and bores every time!

Anyway, kind regards,