> In my experience, if you have too much business acumen, you end up asking questions that the business people can't answer, or don't want to answer. Depends o

> In my experience, if you have too much business acumen, you end up asking questions that the business people can't answer, or don't want to answer. Depends on context. “How does governance oversee the regulatory aspect of this process?”: who is this annoying busybody? “You asked me to automate this part of the flow, but it can get gummed up whenever the auditors request a six month look back. That happens about a couple dozen times a year, and the system we’re all designing so far doesn’t hold the governance information to automate this when that happens, are you folks okay with the process going to manual intervention about half the year?”: damn, he just saved our bacon, drinks are on us next time we go