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In the following, I'm not trying to say that you did something wrong but to offer a perspective as to why it's good for programming to go through usual channels.

At the company where I work, folks in HR developed a survey system using Access off of a webpage. It did what they needed and they even got recognition at the monthly company meeting. This should be a good thing, no?

Well, it isn't. At least from the standpoint of the programmers in IS.

We're in the midst of migrating the company off of a different home-grown system that used Access. It is horribly broken and just isn't up to the load that a 600 person company puts on it.

We've already received requests for support on the HR application. We passed the requests back to the "programmer" in HR that wrote the original code. They said that they don't have the time to support it. It has now come from on high that we will support it even though we didn't write it.

So, -they- get the award while -we- get the pain of supporting something that would've never gotten past the first stage of QA...

In reply to Re: Greediness, or Paranoia? by torin
in thread Greediness, or Paranoia? by defyance

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