Re: Java Batch

On Thu, 8 May 2008 08:30:02 -0500, "Michael Mattias"
<mmattias@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> IT departments don't seem to mind change - but we tend to be control
>> freaks - we want to control the changes.
>
>It's not the IT department's place to want it or not want it: It's the 
>user's place.
>
>Last time I looked, the IT department existed to serve users.
>
>The "How" is the IT department's millieu; but the "What" is the user's.

Actually, we exist to serve the bosses, just as the users do.   Which
means we serve the users within the bosses' constraints and
guidelines.   Those are often money related.   Sometimes they are
related to audit trails, security, privacy, or business issues that
aren't seen by a user as part of his job.

The fact that IS departments are filled with control freaks can both
hurt and help the process of giving the users and bosses what they
want.  (Most characteristics have good and bad points).

What we want and what the users want influence us - but neither case
should they interfere with what the organization wants.  (even there
we have constraints - sometimes legal).