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True client story, heavily anonymised: I was representing my client at a meeting with a third party with which they were planning to integrate. Financial syste
by duncan_bayne 6y ago
True client story, heavily anonymised: I was representing my client at a meeting with a third party with which they were planning to integrate. Financial systems and many zeroes were involved.
It became apparent early in the call that although we were talking in some detail about integrating two complex and complicated systems, no-one on the call was a developer (except myself, lapsed).
It had never occurred to me that the powers that be might do that. Next time (and from then on) there were developers involved, at least from our side.
- tomelders 6y agoManagers just want to be able to make software without those pesky developers getting in the way.
- chiefalchemist 6y agoClassic. Yet when projects fail it's IT that gets the blame. Not to say IT is without fault sometimes. But IT based projects fail because everyone else failed to acknowledge it was an IT project. Effectively talking when they should have been listening.
- MattGaiser 6y agoYou missed a big opportunity to create your own “Project Rescue” outfit for when the project inevitably fell apart.