On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
> An unmanaged professional without guidance is about as good as an unmanaged
> missle that somebody has pulled the trigger on.
>
> Just because a person is a professional does not mean that they do not
> require guidance in the form of blueprints.
That's just plain wrong. You hire a professional because you don't have
the knowledge to do the job yourself. Do you give a set of "blueprints" to your
doctor? Do you tell your lawyer how to argue a case? Of course not. You tell
them what your needs are, and then expect them to have the necessary knowledge
and skill to either heal you, or keep you out of jail.
The same is true of software development. If I had a potential client
tell me how the app they want should be written, i.e., they handed me
"blueprints", I would pass on the job. Clearly they think they know more about
my craft than I do, and there's no way that such an arrangement can turn out
well.
-- Ed Leafe
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