Board level decisions are not concerned with the details of project implementation. Rather they concern risks, returns, costs and alternatives. If some "techie

Board level decisions are not concerned with the details of project implementation. Rather they concern risks, returns, costs and alternatives. If some "techie" has presented a bag of buzzwords to the board, then someone has failed to recruit a competent technical manager. Someone who's job is to understand both the technical and the strategic domains. Directors would be best to spend their time recruiting, rather than learning Vim. OTOH, sometimes the board fails to realise that they are actually running a software company. For example, many directors still believe they are running a "bank", when the vast proportion of their business is software development. In such cases, complaints like this amount to little more than pining for the "good old days".