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Writing proposals, doing architecture reviews and doing design consultations sounds to me largely like busywork and bureaucracy rather than real and productive
by milesrout 2y ago
Writing proposals, doing architecture reviews and doing design consultations sounds to me largely like busywork and bureaucracy rather than real and productive work.
Maybe in a business where the cost of iteration is very high, it makes sense to do this. But in a good business you should not be doing architecture reviews and writing proposals, you should be doing refactoring and creating prototypes, respectively.
- pnut 2y agoFunny, I've evolved the opposite attitude over time. Solving business problems using bespoke software solutions surely is the absolute most expensive option on the table, and should be aggressively avoided unless no other options are available, AND the problem is in a domain which is a core competency and market differentiator for your business. The process of figuring out what your company needs, and how best to solve that problem long term, is dramatically more valuable to a business than software/technology implementation.
- mierz00 2y agoSoftware doesn’t live in a bubble. Architecture reviews ensure that there is some strategy on how things are being solved at an organisational level.