Depth of Knowledge
I am reminder of an observation about accident rates have an inverse U with organizational size. Very small and very large organizations have low rates (for different reasons) while mid-sized organizations have the highest rates. Something suggests that very small organizations are relatively immune because their size means the IT staff is not dealing with a complex situation and backups are relatively easy to do and test. Very large organizations actually have dedicated experts. But mid-sized organizations have enough complexity that doing backups, etc. requires more skill and knowledge that is somewhat hit or miss but they do not often have dedicated experts to do these tasks. Thus the optimum target size for a municipality or company are the ones with enough complexity but are likely not to have staff with the required depth of knowledge in all areas.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
