Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> However, the bigger problem (from my experience-driven
> POV) is that it is not so intuitively obvious that developing
> a network-based product using a team consisting entirely
> of developers who view the network as an unnecessarily
> complicated serial port (which, really is about the approach
> most developers seem to take to networking) is also
> doomed to a certain amount of failure.

Owen,

Surely you don't mean to suggest that having someone with domain
knowledge develop a set of requirements and then kick it over the wall
to folks who know how to program but have no domain knowledge is a
recipe for failure? That having linchpin members of the team with core
competencies in both software development -and- the product-relevant
knowledge domains is critical to success?

Regards,
Bill Herrin




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