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The IT Contractor

Thirty years of technology. The same six problems.

1998People Requirements Time Money Change Legacy
2026People Requirements Time Money Change Legacy

Thirty years of technology. The same six problems.

Short episodes about the things three decades of technology never fixed. One contractor, one straight face, and every Friday deployment you have ever survived.

Written from thirty years on the inside. Made with AI video. Episodes in English.

The episodes

The six problems

None of them are technical. They are the six forces that keep creating technical problems, and every episode lands on at least one.

People

Egos, politics, communication, ownership, blame, and the person who says “It should be quite simple.”

Requirements

Unclear requirements, changing requirements, and the classic: “That's not quite what we meant.”

Time

Impossible deadlines, Friday deployments, quick fixes, and nine months of work required by Tuesday.

Money

Budgets, contractor rates, procurement, cost-cutting, and refusing £10k of preventative work before approving £500k of emergency work.

Change

Scope creep, reorganisations, new managers, Agile, cloud, DevOps, AI, and whatever this year's transformation programme has been renamed.

Legacy

Old systems, undocumented dependencies, abandoned code, and that one server everybody is terrified to reboot.

Written from the inside

The IT Contractor is written by Ade Oyenusi, who spent thirty years in technology and IT contracting. Every situation in every episode is one he has sat through at least once. Usually more than once.

Somehow, it's become your problem too.

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