paninid, 9 months ago

@gulovsen @law
Earlier in the week, I posted a poll on here and LinkedIn asking about people’s awareness of “shadow IT” https://mastodon.world/@paninid/110967702461132163

It might need to be a newsletter article / post.

gulovsen, 9 months ago

@paninid @law - I wasn't aware of the term but yes I think it does deserve an article - incredibly common in smaller companies in my experience.

nikhileshde, 9 months ago

@gulovsen @paninid @law ooh not just the small ones necessarily

gulovsen, 9 months ago

@nikhileshde @paninid @law I only work with the small ones 🤗 but that doesn't surprise me.

jsjoshua, 9 months ago

@gulovsen @nikhileshde @paninid @law it's definitely everywhere. E.g., Whatsapp use at the big banks led to millions in fines.

freeagent, 9 months ago

@jsjoshua @gulovsen @nikhileshde @paninid @law Also, when your corporation gets large enough, various business units/departments/whatever want to do things that require ”IT” but they either don’t know how to properly interface with corporate IT or can’t be bothered (which is frequently totally justified due to unresponsiveness, etc.), so they just fund “IT” stuff themselves.

Source: I was a long-time consultant at numerous F500.

ianbradbury, 9 months ago

@gulovsen @paninid @law - definitely not small ones and I’d argue more common in organisations where IT does not have a seat at the table.

gulovsen, 9 months ago

@ianbradbury @paninid @law To clarify, by "small" I meant a handful of founders and typically no real "IT" person or department.

ogi, 9 months ago

@gulovsen @ianbradbury @paninid @law you’re describing my last job. I write software for speech recognition researchers and linguists, but I also had sysadmin duties. The sysadmin stuff would always creep in, got so bad that every time I would do my “regular job” I would get anxiety about being interrupted by some IT issue. Company was 60ish people, on-prem everything and no exclusive IT staff

Kayla, 9 months ago

@ianbradbury @gulovsen @paninid @law in my experience this also occurs at very large institutions where the workforce is tech literate. Typically when the IT is so restrictive as to interfere with work. People stop asking permission.