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Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system... by Ididntdothis on Saturday August 17, 2019 @05:03PM (#20726361)
"I feel managers, directors, etc. who cannot code should not be managing, either."

It works if they know they are out of touch and trust their people. On the other hand if they try to give input but haven't coded in 10 years it's bad,. Last year I had a fight with a manager who insisted that we use JSON for everything. I pointed out that this is a minor decision and really not very relevant. Another guy agreed and was almost kicked out of the project.

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Re:Software architects should be involved in earliest system... by squeaky-clean on Saturday August 17, 2019 @06:42PM (#20726901)
I'm in this situation now and it's not bad. It's really important for everyone to have a nothing-personal policy about being like "Hey, this is my area and not yours, let me take over." (And it goes both ways).

It does lead to a lot of "Black Triangle" [0] situations though. Where you spend a long time with no "real" actionable results to show management, and then after an annoyingly long amount of time present what looks like an insignificant joke to a non-programmer.

[0] https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745

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