Even New IT Guy....
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Let's face it, every time any one of us comes into a job or site after someone else has been there, the reaction is always the same.
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Some of my back posts goes as proof...
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Very true, it is often very valid, not sometimes it is not and there is just this drive to rip everything out and make it all new again.
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I think a sign of maturity in the field is realizing that just because someone before you did something a different way, doesn't mean you need to rip and replace an environment to make it exactly to your preference.
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So hard to find anyone of that thought process. SAM is about the only one I have ever seen.
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@Dominica said:
I think a sign of maturity in the field is realizing that just because someone before you did something a different way, doesn't mean you need to rip and replace an environment to make it exactly to your preference.
My new client scope has been too small to be much of a sample yet, but I definitely do not go into prospective clients thinking things have to just be tossed and replaced. I have said many times to clients, "this is not how I would do it, but it is a valid way to do it."
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I remember about the three envelop thread in SW.
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I heard this reason
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@Dominica said:
I think a sign of maturity in the field is realizing that just because someone before you did something a different way, doesn't mean you need to rip and replace an environment to make it exactly to your preference.
I think that you are correct. It is a very immature reaction to see every system as needing to be replaced with the way that you would do it yourself. You have to look at the big picture and think about how to get to where the business needs to be based on where it is today. Sometimes that means ripping everything out and starting over. But often it means working with what you have to make incremental changes.
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@JaredBusch said:
My new client scope has been too small to be much of a sample yet, but I definitely do not go into prospective clients thinking things have to just be tossed and replaced. I have said many times to clients, "this is not how I would do it, but it is a valid way to do it."
No question that part of being good at that has to be accepting that there are many ways to skin the cat and just because it isn't your preferred approach does not mean that it is wrong. Maybe it is even better. Everyone tends to have certain products and approaches that they will use if not given some reason not to. That might be installing Active Directory or it might be using Cisco routers or maybe installing CCleaner on every desktop. All valid options, but are they the best in every case?
