Remedy 1: Eliminating Programmers
In the past, hardware costs dominated the cost of computer systems; software costs were relatively small. The bottleneck in system development seemed to be in communication between the programmers and software users, who tried to explain to the programmers what their business or engineering applications had to accomplish.
The programmers just could not get it right because they were trained as mathematicians, not in business, engineering, and so forth. They did not know business and engineering terminology. On the other hand, business and engineering managers did not know design and programming terminology; hence, when the programmers tried to explain what they understood about the requirements, communication ...
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