Scariest thing I see in software today is the move toward using a series of loosely integrated 3rd party components and the constant bowing at the altar of agile. If I am lucky I do 2000 lines of coding in a month at the last 3 companies I have worked at and one of those was EA sports. In a project I did back in '98 I wrote and tested over 100000 lines of code in a month or so. I feel these days like I am losing my edge as I get bogged down in so much process that I can’t tie my shoes without a code review.
I know what you mean. In my last years that was the rage - buy stuff and IT can make it work together. The purchase was done without IT’s input so we had lots of money spent on some app that would revolutionize our business but then when it was implemented (by IT) they found out to make actually it work would cost some millions more! Or they bought the app and if they had asked me I could have told them we already had SQL server and that functionality was included and we were not yet using it so it’s free, dummy! If the University had had a process (they had none - the few devs did whatever they wanted and our business databases showed it - ugggh) they would have run after agile and scrum, and whatever was the buzzword. Our CEO and his minions would read the trade journals and then buy it. I’m glad I’m out of that nonsense now.