Oh, I've worked in big companies. I was just trying to be an optimist here.
As an example where my optimism is warranted: broken builds. You can either make it a `people problem' and tell people to be super careful; or you go for the technical solution and automate the whole thing, so that only commits that build and pass tests get merged into master.
Of course, there's no office politics in my example; so this was easy.
The humble spreadsheet liberated white collar workers to do automate simple (and not so simple) calculation tasks themselves. No begging the computer folks necessary any more, who can hold your department `hostage' at will.
You can bet that from the point of view of spreadsheet adopters, they sidestepped a whole host of political problems.
As an example where my optimism is warranted: broken builds. You can either make it a `people problem' and tell people to be super careful; or you go for the technical solution and automate the whole thing, so that only commits that build and pass tests get merged into master.
Of course, there's no office politics in my example; so this was easy.
The humble spreadsheet liberated white collar workers to do automate simple (and not so simple) calculation tasks themselves. No begging the computer folks necessary any more, who can hold your department `hostage' at will.
You can bet that from the point of view of spreadsheet adopters, they sidestepped a whole host of political problems.