> If everything is a people problem, why do we need engineers at all? Let's look at it as a bunch of people solving a problem which is too big for any one of t

> If everything is a people problem, why do we need engineers at all? Let's look at it as a bunch of people solving a problem which is too big for any one of them. Those people are different, they contribute different parts of the solutions - engineering, managerial - but they all have to cooperate to solve the problem, at least efficiently. If they don't, or don't do enough, for whatever reason, the solving suffers, possibly up to not happening.