I've recently branched out on my own. Never had great tooling, was in government or a F50 where chains of approvals for the slightest changes were cursed by all, including those doing the approving. But, there are some organisational things I miss:
Having someone/a team to ensure network uptime is fantastic and that have the scale and experience to anticipate and mitigate potential trouble before it comes up. Likewise all infra in general. Having a legal department to ask "Can I do this?" where often the answer may be "We don't know" but that's still an answer. A security force, property, accounting, providing peace of mind. Someone making sure the projector's setup, tiny things that add up quickly.
There are downsides to this, such 'organisation' often grinds things to a glacial pace, hence why I'm breaking out by myself now, but... not tooling, I can take care of that myself and I'm incredibly thankful for the SaaS ecosystem that would have made this impossible even a decade ago, or at least very inconvenient with 3rd party consultants providing such services for high fees and little more. There are a lot of things an organisation provides that we can take for granted, and having that experience provides a great bonus in expectations of robustness not only in technology but in all processes of a business. Tooling is, in the end, in the mind.
Having someone/a team to ensure network uptime is fantastic and that have the scale and experience to anticipate and mitigate potential trouble before it comes up. Likewise all infra in general. Having a legal department to ask "Can I do this?" where often the answer may be "We don't know" but that's still an answer. A security force, property, accounting, providing peace of mind. Someone making sure the projector's setup, tiny things that add up quickly.
There are downsides to this, such 'organisation' often grinds things to a glacial pace, hence why I'm breaking out by myself now, but... not tooling, I can take care of that myself and I'm incredibly thankful for the SaaS ecosystem that would have made this impossible even a decade ago, or at least very inconvenient with 3rd party consultants providing such services for high fees and little more. There are a lot of things an organisation provides that we can take for granted, and having that experience provides a great bonus in expectations of robustness not only in technology but in all processes of a business. Tooling is, in the end, in the mind.