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Re:Where did all the developers go? by tbrownaw on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @01:23PM (#7739368)
Were there reasons given for this? Two somewhat reasonable possibilities that immediately come to mind are (1) the difference between anecdotes and solid data; and (2) wanting to have decisions and rationales documented.
Re:Where did all the developers go? by dev360 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @04:21PM (#7740464)
This has happened to me a lot too. A lot of times there will be tons of politics involved and for whatever reason somebody (a team or project lead) may want to portray 'their' version of the narrative mostly for political reasons.

At one place where I worked there were 4-5 big teams with different technology specializations and for every big project we did, these 4 teams had to have a cut of the project for budgeting purposes.

So no matter if there was a need for it or not, youd have BizTalk, or SAP, or SalesForce or whatever inject themselves into a solution and create a complete mess from an architecture standpoint. Completely idiotic.

Re:Where did all the developers go? by stcredzero on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @05:28PM (#7740799)
Specifically that the users don't always "know what's best."I could well be "(1) the difference between anecdotes and solid data; and (2) wanting to have decisions and rationales documented." The problem is that this is biased against genuine insights by the user population.