IT Is Saving the Organization - You're Welcome

We make no secret at PeopleNotTech that our best dialogues and partnerships are with DevOps heroes. Meaning if we need to build a business case so that the organisation gets why they should actively work on making their teams more Psychologically Safe, then it would be “tech people” who are best positioned to help with that.

Why? The same reason why they were the first to try out remote and distributed teams, the same reason why Agile is finally etched in the very bones of the community, the same reason why they were the first to insist on rethinking architecture, bringing in the cloud, OKRs and so on and on - the practical realisation of the needs created by the speed of technology that only IT seems to have.

If you’re in an organisation that has a strong knowledge component where you make any type of technology, then you must have noticed the huge gap between “business” and “tech” and how much more advanced the latter is. They have seen more rapid change than any other part of the organisation because the ask was to create things fast and no speed was possible before a series of shake-ups to the status quo.

Those same needs aren’t evident elsewhere in the organisation and many “supporting departments” could well function as if it’s 2010 and nobody’s watching, for the next 10-20 years before their lack of deep understanding would evidently translate in their performance.

Any IT shop within an organisation knows they are light years ahead. That they have a duty -if not always a license- to drive fast progress while the rest of the enterprise drags feet.