Comments by "" (@brownhorsesoftware3605) on "The SECRETS Of Successful Software Architects" video.

Something I noticed already very early in my career when I worked on a mainframe ATM system was a reluctance to interact with folks in other parts of the business. This astonished me. Rather than consult with the people in their banks, they wanted to ask other data processing centers how things should be implemented. And the answers they got back were insane. So I ignored them and bonded with the people in the banks instead. The gm backed me up and the implementation was a roaring success: first banks to go live by weeks. Since then I have seen this pattern repeated ad infinitum. Perhaps software would be better off if engineers paired with users instead of other engineers.
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@MK-lh3xd Another astonishing thing about sw engineers is how quick they are to say another engineer's success is because of luck and special circumstances. In reality that is rarely the case.
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@MK-lh3xd Actually, after implementing a second next generation of the ATM system, I had five years of a successful PC software business doing the projects that in-house departments turned away. I developed an excellent phone manner and found physical proximity not to be an issue. It all went well until the economy tanked and project funding dried up. In those 5 years I did 30 projects with only one failure (my single attempt at RPG III).
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@MK-lh3xd I cannot help but wonder whether you would be astonished to learn that a more appropriate response would have been "You go girl!"
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