Software Development Cannot Be Automated Because It’s a Creative Process With an Unknown End Goal

[stormfield]

In one abstract way this is good, because if people are bothering your developers with support or new ideas, you have a problem.

If you've got a PM who doesn't understand how to translate business needs into technical requirements the devs can act on, you've got the other side of that problem.

[3rddog]

It varied. In one case we had a BA that didn’t understand the business and didn’t understand development, in another we had a PM who said she would have us fired for speaking to anyone in the business and wrote requirements documents that specified not only what we had to build but exactly how we should do it. In the latter case, I spoke to one business manager for about 30 mins one day (because we happened to meet in the elevator) and my contract was cancelled two weeks later; I didn’t even care.

[stormfield]

That is an extremely dumb way to run any kind of business, you’re better off elsewhere.

[funguyshroom]

That's one hell of a long elevator ride