IT Organization: Building a Worldclass Infrastructure

Applications Development Is Not an Issue

Why did we pick on the infrastructure group and say nothing about applications development? Surely applications development can't be perfect. It's not, but the issues are small compared to the infrastructure group. In the late eighties and throughout the nineties the focus was to develop and deploy quickly. The infrastructure took the backseat. In the seventies the Infrastructure drove the car and owned the back seat—applications development was somewhere in the trunk. Times have changed. You need both groups playing together to be successful. Without the proper infrastructure there cannot be RAS when deploying new systems, and when the systems cannot maintain high availability, all of IT gets a black ...