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Is local “User” rights enough or do developers need Local Administrator or Power User while coding?

I currently work for a large utilities company which currently does not grant “Local Admin” access to developers. This is causing a lot of grief as anything that requires elevated privileges needs to be done by the Desktop Support/Server Teams. In some cases this can take several days and requires our developers to have to show why they need this access. I personally think that all developers should have local administration rights and are currently fighting with management to achieve this but I would like to know what other people think about this.

To achieve this I would like to hear what people believe are the pros and cons of letting developers have local admin access to their machines. Here are some I have come up with:

Pros

• Loss time is keep low as developers can resolve issues that would normally require Local Admin
• Evaluation of tools and software are possible to improve productivity
• Desktop support time not wasted installing services and software on developers PC

Cons

• Developers install software on local PC that could be malicious to others or inappropriate in a business environment
• Desktop Support required to support a PC that is not the norm
• Development done with admin access that then fails when promoted to another environment that does not have the same access level