>It seems like being a professional IS about understanding costs and making tradeoffs. This is the core essence of it. Professionalism is communicating and off

>It seems like being a professional IS about understanding costs and making tradeoffs. This is the core essence of it. Professionalism is communicating and offering transparency, while adapting to, essentially, the real world. When I hear the "give me an unmoving specification and I yield to no change" crowd, I envision them essentially as technicians.