Follow on development, and available talent pool. You wrote a super fast OLTP system in forth? Great! You're a god, but no one can support it or extend it to m

Follow on development, and available talent pool. You wrote a super fast OLTP system in forth? Great! You're a god, but no one can support it or extend it to meet future needs. Perhaps Bob had reasonable expectations that he'd be able to organically grow this app over time. Not being technical he chose a platform which seemed to have a pool of talent available to him. In the small, this was a trivial technical decision. In the large, business picture, that decision might have major negative effects. Bob should have been consulted, and had the decisions explained to him. On the other hand, Bob could have explained his longer term intent to his subordinate and allowed her to make a reasonable decision as long as the tradeoffs were communicated back to him.