So the theory is to cloak the designer as a program manager? Or did I
twist that a bit?
On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Russell Wilson wrote:
"Lacking a program manager, your garden-variety super-smart
programmer is
going to come up with a completely baffling user interface that makes
perfect sense IF YOU'RE A VULCAN (cf. git). The best programmers are
notoriously brilliant, and have some trouble imagining what it must
be like
not to be able to memorize 16 one-letter command line arguments. These
programmers then have a tendency to get attached to their first ideas,
especially when they've already written the code."
How to be a program manager
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/09.html
What Geoffrey Moore, Donald Norman, Paul Graham, Heidi Roizen,
Jennifer
Aaker, Michael Lopp, and Ryan Carson all have in common?
http://www.businessofsoftware.org/
--
Joel Spolsky
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