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Five Dysfunctional IT Relationships – And How to Repair Them
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In large technology departments, dysfunctional relationships breed like mushrooms in a dank basement. Your dev and ops teams are no longer on speaking terms, while your junior and senior developers can't seem to agree on anything. IT and legal are constantly at each other's throats. Storage wonks are ready to declare war on the database admins, while sys admins seem to be on everyone's bad side.
Why can't they all just get along? In many cases it's the tension between conflicting demands on the same systems. Fortunately there are solutions, based on finding common ground between these five warring factions:
- Storage admins vs. DBAs
- Senior developers vs. junior developers
- IT vs. legal
- Dev vs. ops
- Sys admins vs. the world
From InfoWorld
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