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I was actually talking about former - stop outsourcing 'reading and writing' to dev shops. Rules and policies are quite intricately thought through and they ge
by achow 5y ago
I was actually talking about former - stop outsourcing 'reading and writing' to dev shops.
Rules and policies are quite intricately thought through and they get refined as and when 'bugs' or 'holes' are detected (to the detriment of work culture - yet another condition for buying paperclips).
It is often software implementation which does not take care of all ifs and buts, as nobody has patience to write a detailed specs. Most often software tools addresses only frequent cases; when it comes to outliers and exceptions one defaults to 'manual methods' (emails, meetings, face to face talks, etc).
Software implementations can be way behind when trying to keep pace with system intricacies that human minds can conjure up.
- lifeisstillgood 5y agoBut the "intricacies human minds conjure up" can themselves be coded - I mean they are rules that at least two humans have agreed on (at least enough to transact) The fact that most IT systems are behind is just saying most companies are not software mediated enough, yet. And all the robot automation and so on happening across all companies is a recognition that there needs to be deeper mediation - the implications may not be well thought through but the more a companies processes and decisions are made explicit in software the more change will be forced As an example just think of volkswagen - someone had to explicitly code up "lie on the exhaust emissions test". if that is not raising / surfacing all explicit rules and assumptions i don't know what is !