If architects had to work like web designers…
Got this from UFies.org — it’s titled about web designers, but I think it’s true of commercial software development in general. Oh, how it’s true.
Come to think of it, it also applies to Free Software development, and it’s mostly down to people not knowing what they want. In the commercial world, that’s because the sales people don’t know what the customers want, because the customers haven’t thought it through properly, so the sales people figure out what they think the customers are going to buy, and pass that on to the developers with the air of ‘do this and the company will be rich’.
If I sound cynical right now, it’s because I am. Don’t you like nice, simple reasons?