What if your development team is made up of mediocre programmers? What works for the most talented programmers isn't necessarily going to work for your team. I

What if your development team is made up of mediocre programmers? What works for the most talented programmers isn't necessarily going to work for your team. In my experience the choice of the right tech is primarily a business decision rather than a technical one. By that I mean it should be based on a number of factors external to the technology. Once you have clearly identified the business problem you are trying to solve, you have to think of the solution in terms of risk. For example, what is the up-front development risk? What are the maintenance risks? Every project exists within a certain environment with its own set of constraints. Picking the right solution means understanding these and doing so from the point of view of the business. If you understand the risks and constraints, and you put the needs of your end-users, the systems administrators, the testers, and the business first you will rarely go off-track.