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That’s a pretty limited and limiting statement. That you could also apply to all other kind of craft (music, painting, sculpture, woodworking, building, etc.):
by Juliate 4y ago
That’s a pretty limited and limiting statement.
That you could also apply to all other kind of craft (music, painting, sculpture, woodworking, building, etc.): you _could_ understand it of having a limited set of tools, techniques and vocabulary, to serve about often the same kind of output.
But now, output still vary greatly to the accustomed eye/ear/body, and how you get to that output even more so.
Experience (and taste, which refines with it) will always make a difference: how the need is understood, which technique to apply, which hypothesis to form, which to explore or relegate, how to plan/distribute work (on one’s own or on a team), how it will feel working on it, how people will be satisfied, how fast, how well, how costly, etc. all the way to the finished « thing ».
Edit: a very specific/limited example: working on the very same project from the different perspectives of a large worldwide consultancy team, a local-based design/tech studio, or a two-people startup team will be a hell of a ride because from project to tech to business to people, expectations, vocabulary, behavior, speed of execution, focus, know-how, freedom to experiment, tools, so many stuff will differ.
- shoo 4y agoSometimes experience can even be harmful. Suppose an individual or a team encountered one situation, and worked very hard to explore, figure out a viable "attack" to solve it, perhaps after a number of failures. Now they have experience. Suppose they're hired to help another project which is in a similar situation -- perhaps instead of repeating what they did the first time, instead of exploring they jump straight to applying the solution that worked before. If the situation is similar but not enough for the same solution to work, then maybe the outcome is going to be worse than if inexperienced folk with reasonable problem solving skills were thrown at it.
- Juliate 4y agoDefinitely. But we are all to be « haunted » by our own experience if we are to live, and to have to know how/when not to take it into account (which in itself is some form of experience too).
- sanitycheck 4y agoIn the universe I inhabit the opposite happens. For any number of consecutive similar problems teams will pick a different approach/technology each time, because they "already did that" and the needs of the project/business are secondary to their desire for novelty.
- bstpierre 4y agoIt’s not always driven by a desire for novelty. In my experience it’s just as often driven by some amount of reflection and desire to improve on what came before. I think there’s a lot of middle ground between chasing shiny new things and change that corrects systemic shortcomings of previous approaches.