The gap between business demand for functionality which improves customer experience and productivity, and IT capability to provide said demand.
Hacker news is filled with programmers who feel proud about their craft, and, judging on the comments here, feel threatened.
Yet it seems most of these people have never been in a big company where 90% of the world's business software is used, had to deliver something half-assed due to this ridiculous gap, which the business is elated for the next 10 years, with the programmer ashamed.
That's the value of software - supporting business processes. You can cut a lot of corners if you achieve that.
Hacker news is filled with programmers who feel proud about their craft, and, judging on the comments here, feel threatened.
Yet it seems most of these people have never been in a big company where 90% of the world's business software is used, had to deliver something half-assed due to this ridiculous gap, which the business is elated for the next 10 years, with the programmer ashamed.
That's the value of software - supporting business processes. You can cut a lot of corners if you achieve that.