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The problem arises when a clueless manager sees your tiny custom 50-line program and makes it responsible for anything more complex than a water dispenser, with
by pif 4y ago
The problem arises when a clueless manager sees your tiny custom 50-line program and makes it responsible for anything more complex than a water dispenser, with the author and his boss praising the "simplicity" and "ease of development" of what is going to become the bane of the organization for the following decades.
I do understand that most people don't want to be programmers, and that's fine. At the same time, professional software development needs professional software developers.
Sure, most of us like to be able to fix a faucet, but would you trust a hobbyist plumber to design and maintain the toilets of the Yankee Stadium?
- runlaszlorun 4y agoDoes this really happen often? I’m not saying it doesn’t, I’ve just heard the claim repeated often while never having seen it myself. Maybe because every project I’ve been on was far over-complicated rather under. A small, crappy prototype would also go far in sussing out requirements. But I’ve generally not seen that included enough in the development process for most big corporate internet projects.