RE: Hypothetical design question

[Andreas Saurwein <saurwein () uniwares com>]

At 28/1/2004 13:37 Wednesday, "Dave Paris" wrote:

Not to wander from the strict topic or be inflamatory but more often than
not it's the marketing department mandating "features".  Not too many
programmers I know are in the position to just add features during their
implementation. (at least in commercial-ware)  Heck, most programmers I know
have sufficient intellectual agility to realize that a lot of features
currently found in common applications are just Really Bad Ideas [tm] from
any number of angles, security ranking at or near the top.


So far my experience has been that "marketing department" has practically 
no technical knowledge and usually consults one of those "system analysts" 
which do not know much about programming, nothing about security and just 
as much about user interface design and usability.
That the programmers are often just confronted with the facts after the 
design is part of a bad design process.



In short, please don't shoot the messenger.


The messenger is the first to shoot in order to avoid worse :)


cheers
Andreas