Now here is a subject that is good enough to cover during "working hours" - STRESS
"The CIO role is tailor-made for feeling out of control."
- power over development, but usually not over budgets and high-level priorities - over developers but not over users and their changing, undefined desires. With increasing use of computers there are more systems than ever, rather than a few good, stable suitable systems for all.
"Constant stress does more than damage your health. It destroys your judgement and distorts your decision-making process."
- you don't have time to read the backgroound material, never mind preparing a brief for somebody else on it! So it boils down to what is most convenient AS-IS, with a low up-front cost and a nice looking feature list. Then two months down the road everything has to be reworked and refitted - because.... well, no one knows!
"For 50 percent of the people who get cardiovascular disease, death is the first symptom"
- so much for restorative treatment.
...so that's it - I'm heading out into the beautiful summer day, to relax and enjoy life! (but I'll probably be stuck in front of the pc again this evening... c'est la IT-vie)
