• Melkath@kbin.social
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    Also remember, strictly speaking, IT is not software development. IT is networking and hardware management.

    Software development (and scoff all you want, but VBS/VBA are programming languages/frameworks used to develop software applications) is its own separate beast.

    They MAY report to the CIO. They could also report to the COO. Fuck, software development/process automation/business intelligence can have a director reporting directly to the CEO.

    In general, software development and information technology are not the same and don’t reside in the same chain of command.

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      1 year ago

      Strictly speaking, information technology encompasses software dev as a subfield. Practically, a large software development at a company has very different needs and strategic goals than what people usually understand as the “IT guys” so what you mentioned. So they are set up accordingly in an organisation.

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      With some of my smaller clients, the CIO is the same as the CTO and the same as the IT Director. There, IT is developers, too.