It's Time to Get Rid of the IT Department

<p><pre><code> For example, low-code&#x2F;no-code software development platforms allow employees to drag and drop application components, connect them together and create mobile or web apps without programming skills. It’s another function of the old IT department that is no longer necessary. </code></pre> ROFLCOPTERING TO INFINITY<p>Anybody else remember when Visual Basic for Applications was going to make hand-written line-of-business code vanish overnight, replaced by point-and-click MFC widgets?<p>Also LOL at &quot;we&#x27;ve decentralized technology decisions, people can do whatever they want as long as they use the company-wide-prescribed languages, protocols, and software architecture&quot;.

Ignorance is bliss.<p>It is only ignorance that allows someone to so foolishly state what has been communicated in this article.<p>You will _always_ need people to keep up with support contracts, be that your &quot;no code&quot; systems or your desktop computer.<p>People will always expect email to &quot;just work&quot; and they assume that it&#x27;s going to just work, but, even if you outsource your email services to Microsoft or Google: It&#x27;s not that easy.<p>What about your assets? If you&#x27;re working on a product, where are you storing everything? Dropbox? Where&#x27;s your backups.. because dropbox is not a backup..<p>Argh, obviously everything is domain driven but this is just drivel. Probably just rage bait for clicks.

Just imagine the future! Each department has their own IT. They can buy phones themselves. And fix contracts for anything they need. Buy computers. And their own software! They decide which office suite they want. And their own servers with storage networks when they need any. And their own networks complete with firewalls, load balancers and LDAP. Each department can have their own login solution. And their own way of sharing files, chatting and have video meetings.<p>As long as no person ever tries to communicate, share documents or other information with a person from another department. That might cause some problems. &#x2F;s

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&gt; What the bank and the energy company and a handful of other organizations have realized is that segregating IT makes it nearly impossible to have the agility, speed and flexibility that customers demand<p>We are about 100x faster than you will be without an IT department.

We moved to o365, I was worried for my good friends the exchange admins, because the entire premise of saving money by moving to the cloud is that you can get rid of people.<p>Good (?) news is that they&#x27;re busier than they&#x27;ve ever been, even needing more support from other admins.<p>Turns out, TANSTAAFL<p>I do wonder how many times we need to learn this.