Good reading. It reminds me of the wave of big banks implementing 'Lean management', supposedly listening to the employees in a bottom to top fashion, while announcing a 5% cut in the IT workforce.

We got the whole package, daily stand-up meetings, problem management sessions, whiteboards, you name it. The whiteboards where maintained for 2 years. The 5% workforce cut was compensated later on.

But more importantly, It managers could brag about implementing lean management at cocktails, and laugh at the old cranks who had not yet done it.

Now those mid-level managers are implementing 'the cloud', mostly by using shitty tools provided by the service provider they are in bed with, be it IBM, MS or HP. Milions are being spent.

It leaves me wondering if everybody is within the bounds of the law during those transformations.