Deep expertise is absolutely crucial to properly scope projects, get the right requirements from stakeholders, understand level of effort and understand depende

Deep expertise is absolutely crucial to properly scope projects, get the right requirements from stakeholders, understand level of effort and understand dependency trees. Basically ensuring that the objectives and work are well defined and the right engineers are working on the right pieces of it. I've seen projects fail for O(years) because the managers are not sufficiently technical to do this properly.