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If you are already spending >$200K per employee, spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain.
My bigger concerns is that it creates dependency, prices go up, and you either deal with it, or you change systems which is hugely costly. FOSS as much as possible.
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Valve is the only one that I've heard of but without manager there need to be a lot of internal politics to get your work done.
Has Valve done anything noteworthy in the last 10 years besides milking the Steam store? Their half-baked console seemed like an attempt to do more of the former.
If you are already spending >$200K per employee, spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain.
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Name some examples of price increases that were unfair? Price increases due to inflation are a necessity. I can't see a world where I would buy a software once and use it forever , so paying for upgrades is necessary at some point.
There's a hell of a gap between "paying for upgrades is necessary at some point" and "my supplier can choose when I have to pay more".
It felt pretty shady (both his behaviour and their pricing structures).
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Because most business in the United States is done despite the management, not because of it.
Where’s the list of awesome companies that succeed without managers?
This is what 'agile' is supposed to emulate for larger businesses.
If you are already spending >$200K per employee, spending another $10K to make them even 10% more productive is a bargain.
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Exactly this. Unfortunately, way too often I see execs saying "that's too expensive, we just have to do it manually" instead of using good tool. Then what happens is somebody making $100+/hour would spend several hours to do the job that would be covered by a tool that costs under $50/month.
It's easy to say "yes" and difficult to say "no". Becoming a financial steward comes by first saying "no" and only saying "yes" when the ROI worksheet is filled out, completed, and approved. If you want your manager to approve spending some money on tools you can help them by filling out your own preliminary ROI worksheet to show them why you think it's a no-brainer.
Giving individual contributors purchase authority and then supervising spend -- the model implemented in every major cloud -- is a much better compromise, because it lets management prioritize where they spend ROI calculation cycles which are not free. Very not free!
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My bigger concerns is that it creates dependency, prices go up, and you either deal with it, or you change systems which is hugely costly. FOSS as much as possible.
FOSS is free if your time is worthless. There's plenty of situations in business where using it is an incredibly good idea. There's even more situations where you're better off just paying for a service.