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Business value is defined by the business in question, and what’s valuable to one business isn’t valuable to all businesses. The point is that the goal is a col
by dahart 4y ago
Business value is defined by the business in question, and what’s valuable to one business isn’t valuable to all businesses. The point is that the goal is a collective goal and not an individual goal.
If you really can hire fewer people to get the job done, and the value you care about is lowering the costs of employing people, that certainly is valuable, and you should do it.
Business Value is a term you learn to understand very quickly and deeply when you start a business and hire some opinionated programmers who complain loudly about having to talk to others and document what they work on, and proceed to have trouble meeting their deadlines, or create issues that others need to help fix.
I’ve personally watched what happens with programmers who write code without talking to people enough, both individual programmers who seems prolific, and groups of programmers working on different parts of a larger system. When programmers refuse to stay involved in the discussion of what do to, they sometimes invent or imagine their own requirements, and they build things that don’t fit into what the business actually needs. This can be a colossal waste of time and money, even though all programmers involved were happy and felt like things were “efficient”.
The problem with the article is that the author is arguing for personal efficiency, at the expense of group efficiency. It’s funny to write something about software companies being a joke and then argue that it’s annoying to work with other people. The software companies that are a joke are the ones no longer in business.