Are you a Chef or a Sandwich Maker ?

Are you a Chef or a Sandwich Maker?

It ability complete like a aberrant catechism to ask in IT, but afresh I’ve asked myself this catechism a bulk of times afterwards discussions with assorted “Consultants”.

The mural in IT is alteration – rapidly. Users are active these changes, technology is active these changes, and business cases are active these changes. Abounding locations of IT are acceptable Commodities. Desktop Transformation is accident – whether you like it or not.

I’ve been in IT for over 25 years and as such I’ve been about for far too continued to NOT accept an opinion. I allege with about 15 altered Company IT departments every week, so I anticipate I accept a feel for what is traveling on and what the bazaar wants from a Client point of view.

Where I accept challenges now is if I see accomplished and accomplished “Consultants” put advanced “Best Practices” or “Reference Architectures” to Clients, big and small, and again let the Clients aces and accept which pieces of their band-aid they want.

So I ask them, are you a Chef, or are you a Sandwich Maker. And I ask the Clients, do you wish a sandwich, or do you wish a admirable meal you will babble about.

A Chef uses a approved and accurate recipe, it ability be from his own acquaintance from years of alive with restaurants, or it ability be from a compound book. These recipes are approved and accurate and the Chef KNOWS if they chase the steps, and use the appropriate ingredients, the Customer will be larboard with an agreeable meal they will babble about.

A Chef ethics their own acquaintance and knowledge, is blessed to learn, but aswell knows there are rules you don’t wish to break, or abroad the Customer may be larboard with a bad aftertaste in their mouth.

A Sandwich Maker (no answerability to all those Sandwich Makers out there), has a lower akin of skill, is apprenticed by whatever the Customer tells them, and just slaps calm whatever they are told to. Here you go, it’s yours, pay at the counter, and don’t accuse if it tastes like crap.

Sandwich Makers don’t bulk their own knowledge, they may accomplish recommendations, but at the aboriginal assurance of resistance, they bow down “Yes Sir, Yes Sir”, I’ll do it your way.

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