I’m glad you’ve clarified as when you said that it sounded like you’re astonished at the level of apathy and/or incompetence you’re surrounded with and I was worried for a second that you’ve just too little experience to understand that your predecessors have very likely been trying for much of that time to push back against the status quo and have better ideas implemented, likely swimming upstream against resistance you’re wholly unaware of.
But it’s clearly not that after all, which is a relief - I’m glad it’s just a case of everyone else that’s come before you being useless.
Is it just me, or are you being needlessly sarcastic here?
The resistance is ridiculous, but it’s still the single most valuable thing we can be doing to improve our project delivery.
Given the current division of people that care/not care (or are disinclined to act on it?). It is entirely likely that none of my predecessors did.
That said, if they had been doing it (and made any progress), I really wonder what the previous situation was. Maybe there just weren’t any requirements at all?
From experience I would suggest that it's very likely they had a very clear idea of where the problems were and tried to solve them, but found that they were not a priority upstream.
It's still an absurd situation, but I doubt very much it's the result of apathy - or at the very least the result of apathy from your direct predecessors.
But it’s clearly not that after all, which is a relief - I’m glad it’s just a case of everyone else that’s come before you being useless.
Boomers, am I right?