Neck_of_the_Woods's Journal: Developer Admin relations.

Can someone tell me why on earth the Developers and the Admin staff of a programing company are always about to kill each other.

I know my reasons, being on both sides of this fence but I would be interested in what others have to say. Is it the finger pointing when the server goes down. Lack of support? Lack of tested code?

I find that where I work it is all of the above. More often than most it is poor code because of the unreal time lines these guys are put under. Which then produces really crappy code that floats about as well a a brick.

What is the solution? I can't really fight for them for more time, I can't retrain the QA department, and they don't seem to mind working 80 hours a week to push this crap out. Just twists my tit a bit when server farms start to crash, application servers are at 100% untilization, and our sql servers are not responding. All 20 minutes after a code push to production at 2am. ahhh...well, screw it...end rant here.

Do I sounds bitter? - HA!