With the end of the year just around the corner, it’s time for reflection and wish lists. Even in places where there’s usually little room for such things between deployments, ticket floods, and spontaneous “Can you just quickly…” requests. While the fairy lights are going up outside and the city centers smell of mulled wine and gingerbread, IT teams are hoping above all for stable systems and a few quiet days without alarm messages. So it’s time to take a look at the small and large wishes of those who keep IT operations running.
December is a difficult month in IT: On the one hand, many want to complete their projects, but on the other hand, everyone longs for a break from the hectic pace of IT operations. However, these continue unabated at full speed even during the Christmas season. So what’s on the wish list of developers who are trying to find a little peace and quiet between system crashes and last-minute changes during this often turbulent time of year?
We have compiled the most important wishes:
1. Fewer regulations, more fun coding
Every new guideline sounds like bureaucracy bingo: DORA, NIS2, CRA – at some point, no one knows anymore whether they are actually writing software or implementing regulations. Of course, security needs rules, but sometimes you wish the energy spent reading paragraphs could be converted directly into productivity.
2. Audits with long intervals
Christmas joy in its purest form: no checklists, no flood of meetings, no frantic “Who has the minutes from 2022 again?” Between security requirements and compliance updates, there’s hardly any room to breathe anyway. An audit-free year would be like a vacation.
3. A customer who voluntarily increases the daily rate
The probability of this happening lies somewhere between “the server remains stable after patch day” and “the specialist department has no change requests.” But we can dream: a customer who recognizes good work before the controlling department relativizes it—that would be true Christmas magic.
4. A VPN that ALWAYS works
Whether on the train, in the home office, or at the Christmas market – VPNs seem to have an aversion to the festive spirit. As soon as someone plays “Last Christmas,” the connection breaks down. If Santa could really bring one thing, it would be stable tunnels – without timeouts, without curses, without restarts.
5. A firewall that also blocks Christmas stress
Wouldn’t that be nice? A rule that automatically sends all “Quick query about project status” emails between December 23 and January 2 to snowy nirvana. Maybe even with an integrated meeting blocker. Anyone who manages to write this into the next security update would surely win the internal innovation award—at least from their colleagues.
6. A time machine for deployment
For those moments when just one tiny fix suddenly brings the whole system to a standstill. Anyone who has ever had a less than successful deployment on a Friday would give anything to have a time machine to go back 30 minutes before the button was pressed.
7. Finally, all tickets in the green zone
Every project manager’s dream—and a status that all development teams will still be telling their great-grandchildren about. In reality, tickets are not closed, they evolve: bugs become features, features become change requests, and at some point they are given low priority.
8. AI that finally understands what the customer really wants
Not what’s in the specifications – but what’s actually meant. If artificial intelligence could one day interpret customer wishes before they are rephrased three times and escalated five times, it would be the beginning of a more carefree era.
“As diverse as the wishes on our list are, in the end, everyone in IT wants the same thing: good health, good spirits, and a team you can rely on,” says Nadine Riederer, Managing Director of Avision. “Because without these three things, even the most wonderful IT miracles would only be worth half as much. With this in mind: Merry Christmas and best wishes for success and strong nerves to all developers.”
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