I like to think that when I ran a digital agency that my team loved me. I like to think that my demands were, for the most part, not unreasonable. Or that my scoping and project planning came close enough to achievable. But I also know that my expectations would sometimes be unreasonable. Or that “going above and beyond” really did mean going to the CEO’s house.
The thing is, marketing without IT is almost impossible now. Imagine if you had to revert to faxes (what are they?). Or hand drawn mock-ups. Or “camera ready art”.
This is why marketers and technical teams need to work on better relations. We need better ways to communicate. And even just respect some professional boundaries.
Will it happen? It can. And it needs to. Because your dev is the centre of your universe.