"/Absolutely not. It just doesn't work./" So you're saying then that it has never worked? That's a pretty big assumption. I am non-technical and I think I fit

"/Absolutely not. It just doesn't work./" So you're saying then that it has never worked? That's a pretty big assumption. I am non-technical and I think I fit pretty well with B) in that article. I always said that even if I did not /understand/ programming I certainly appreciated it. That meant I could appreciate how difficult something would be to implement, whereas those non-technical people who did not appreciate programming (my superiors) would ask for something they thought was simple then go ape when it wasn't implemented immediately. I would spend hours locked away with my programming colleague while I explanied the business logic for what I needed, he would map out that database concepts. Eventually I got a pretty good appreciation for databases. I'd admit it didn't work perfectly - as a first-timer and more or less accidental project manager I allowed us to over-complicate the project. Were I to do it a second time I would be much better at KISS. Based on my experience I would have to say it is incorrect to say it "just doesn't work".