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Additionally, when you outsource technical labor you MUST have the ability internally to create very good designs, specifications, and oversight/feedback mechan
by goatinaboat 7y ago
Additionally, when you outsource technical labor you MUST have the ability internally to create very good designs, specifications, and oversight/feedback mechanisms to ensure that you're getting what you wanted rather than what you asked for via sloppy communication
In fact there’s a word for a person who can translate vague business requirements into precise, unambiguous language.
Programmer.
Of course to a manager a programmer just looks like an expensive typist, one who uses too many semicolons.
- fallous 7y agoIn fairness to the hypothetical manager, there are plenty of people with the title of programmer who are unwilling/incapable of such translation. If it were merely sufficient to speak with Area Programmer(tm) then outsourcing would be perfectly fine.