Paul Venezia has a mildly ironical notion about gauging the effectiveness of IT departments. “The best network and system administrators are the laziest,” he writes. “Unless there’s a major project underway, it’s the ‘insanely busy’ IT departments that are the cause for worry, not the ones playing Nerf football.”Now, lazy isn’t always a bad thing, particularly in this instance, when Venezia explains that, given the task of migrating from one firewall platform to another, the lazy admins will “write some perl to parse the config from the original firewall and generate valid code for the new platform,” rather than “simply re-create all ACLs and rules in the new firewall.” Venezia closes with some advice for executives who don’t quite grasp how IT ought to work. But I’ll not spoil the fun…How you know when your IT department is doing it right. Technology Industry