@trochee@dair-community.social
Post #2232178
2023-09-18 03:42 UTC
@davidbeers@dair-community.social @afeinman@wandering.shop @jk@mastodon.social
Alas, many engineers do not consider this requirements-management to be a "real" part of engineering
Conversely, I think that software without giving voice to the impact on the user is not engineering at all
Yes, that means that some "UX" people and "product managers" might be the only ones on a large team ACTUALLY doing software engineering.
Everybody else is either doing in vitro lab science or assembling IKEA furniture — both worthy tasks, but not engineering
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@davidbeers@dair-community.social 2023-09-18 13:11
@trochee@dair-community.social @afeinman@wandering.shop @jk@mastodon.social hard agree. That attitude is part of the regression in software engineering that I referred to recently. 20 yrs ago the prevailing ethos was that to do real engineering there had to be users in the room trying the software on a daily basis and making you question your assumptions. We called it #ExtremeProgramming because you couldn’t go farther as an engineer than to continuously center user value over your dreams for the algorithm.