>>9784236the biggest problem with IT and software development/maintenance is that it very often is some policy getting in the way, not actual lack of skill or know-how. and the very common but faulty solution people try to apply is "let's have a skilled developer do the management then" and that's even worse because developers tend to be highly autistic and get fixated on something really stupid (at one point on that site, there was a serious fight between upper leadership over "the proper way to display a decimal number" and "whether or not we should allow links to websites" because the leadership at the time consisted of 3 developers). what is really needed is "someone who knows enough not to make absolutely stupid decisions but isn't autistic enough to spend all resources trying to perfectly align a square peg into a square hole" and you need someone above them that knows enough to put someone like that in charge, and that cascades until it's just a master leadership problem. on small-scale things like this it's mostly a problem of "who inherits the thing"
hiro not messing around too much is a blessing, i really do feel for the SCP /x/ guys who figured out too late what it meant to lose the battle of gamergate, even if the overall war is still ongoing