working in the IT sector

Yep, definitely. But I feel much of it is down to the sector setting and following correct processes, change control, etc. rather than just winging it as I've experienced in the past.

It's the same with every profession they all have more admin, and protocol, more accountability, and a chain of evidence.

It has its good and bad sides more accountability and no hiding places are good the amount of work it adds to the real work is the downside.

In my experience a lot of it is nonsense.

Usually it ends up with the same outcomes, but taking vastly longer to do it. Most of it is change for sake. Because most of it is check box exercises. We are utterly swamped with it.

I don't mean things like that. I mean I've got to document a daily task that takes a minute to do but 20 mins to document, log. Its never been peer reviewed or audited.

As stated above, everything is made complicated in response to the actions of dumbos and arseholes. It then become a self perpetuating process. E.g. how many people are employed in IT and how many time consuming security measures are required for every end user because morons can't refrain from clicking on phishing links

Yes, and then add in one other curveball. The systems used to monitor the processes were not designed with the processes in mind. They are one size fits all applications. Where 2 or more systems are in place they most often don't talk to each other.

Often times, the new digital process is the same paper-based process just on computer, and "sure thats how we've always done it".

I was following a thread on boards recently where a guy wanted to have a website that people could visit on their phone and fill out a PDF to record tests done on some machine. I've worked in places with a similar setup and the user experience was painful.

Another place I worked in, you had to fill out your timesheet in excel, print it out, get your manager to sign it, and then give it to the receptionist who would scan each one back into a computer. This, in an office of 60 engineers.

This is where the position of Digital Transformation comes in, and hopefully, (he says wishfully) will improve things in some workplaces in the future.

The reality is that programmers standards have dropped drastically over the years. It used to be people who were really technical and dedicated to what they did. Then there were tons of people with no natural ability "learning" IT. I was recently working on a project and a graduate was fixing the bugs. There was a drop down list of over 100 items making it unusable ( programmed by a senior developer) so the the simple request was to make it a prompt button with filter list.

The graduate didn't know what a prompt button was and didn't understand why F4 should function on the field. Then he goes off to the UX team who also didn't know what a prompt button looked like or why F4 was important. They were al brought up only using a mouse. The software overall was full of such basics missing functions bringing all user performance down to the same level requiring a mouse to fill in forms. Don't get me started on tab order. I have seen many GUI front ends put on software making everything slower but easier to train

The thing is the developers that are far inferior to the past think they are really good at their jobs. They now need more testing than before and stricter rules about deployments. Look what happened in Natwest as that is a prime example of needing strict protocols and testing