It's a Hairball!

CIO Magazine has an interesting take on IT operations that devolve into bottlenecks. Read the entire article: it's quick and interesting. It uses the snarky description of Hairball to discuss an uncontrolled development environment that evolves over time. (I think I'll steal that one.)

The article has one point with which I would quibble, the use of IT steering committees that become roadblocks instead of gates through which things move quickly. It says steering committees inherently become bureacratic tools for infighting. Maybe. A poorly organized one does. I've been a part of two that worked very, very well because they had a good charter, good participants, and good executive oversight. 

But, like I said, I quibble.