The idea was they'd get experience in requirements analysis; interviewing; teamwork; collaboration and project management and they would ideally produce something usable and beneficial to the business.
Yet year afterwards year students would give interim project reports that detailed how their adopted business was running on Windows 98 and Microsoft Office 97 so they'd recommend upgrading to Windows 2000 and Office 2000.
Sure, upgrading innovation has a reason and a place nevertheless in itself it is meaningless. What actual genuine business issue is being solved by this?
Now, had the students reported that the business was demonstrably in need of more modern functionality that was met by these products, and in this way efficiency or security or decreased costs or increased revenue or something else was attained at the time that would have been wonderful.
Yet, by itself just poking around a business and saying, "yeah, I think your software is old" just perpetuates myopic viewpoints that IT is not interested in the business and that it's all a scam to constantly suck money for never-ending upgrades.
I'm reminded of another incident where my employer at that time divested itself of one business unit. I explained to the new owners and their IT contractors all the things they needed to take into account and that they and I needed to act swiftly to migrate their e-mail, their files, their domain, their network and their telecommunications.
Meanwhile I watched with incredulity, reminding them the sale agreement stipulated a set amount of time previously we when all is said and done removed access to our network.
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