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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9440691" data-attributes="member: 725">Extensive experience in IT at many different (big) companies over the last 25+ years as an outside contractor. At small(er) companies you can often do everything yourself, so very agile. At bigger companies everything has been segmented, what you did yourself at a smaller company, now requires multiple different people, often in different departments. Just getting everyone lined up to do something together is already a task that will take time. If it's something that's blocking what you're doing it can easily take a week+ to get things done. While previously you did it yourself in an hour or two.That's one aspect, the other is while cash is more readily available at big companies, actually getting permission to use it takes a lot of layers and often TONS of meetings. Many people who came from a small company that got bought by a large company don't have the fortitude for that. And one hand might not know what the other is doing or what is possible or required.And the only thing that more money does, is hire more people to do stuff, more people takes more overhead, more time to get things done and often doesn't fix the underlying problem. If 10 people can't fix something adding another 40 using the same criteria probably won't fix it either. It's often more of an organizational and/or procedural issue.And what's even worse is couch generals thinking project X is simple because they did their own tiny project Y. We have only basic insights into the frontend, zero insights into the backend and a total lack of knowledge of the internal marching orders for the development team. Just adding more people to the pile doesn't fix things. More people is only useful if they can do things the rest can't or if there's a general lack of (wo)manpower, there is zero indication that this is the case.Change doesn't happen with more people, the people already there need to change. And even if they change, their marching orders might just stay the same. Minimum effort development.</blockquote>

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