> What words do you think we abuse in programming?
"Technical"
It's abused in the programming community in the sense that it's used as a work dividing line. For example, if a programmer starts talking about the details of program, and all of a sudden, those "technical details" that many members aren't concerned with.
The reality is, though everything, from the quarterly earnings, to your client's names, are all "technical details," and the issue isn't that one is perceived as programming or the other marketing, it's that everyone in the business universally struggles to communicate what benefit their areas of responsibility cover.
I'm picking on technical specifically because programmers take pride in being perceived as such, and that pride often blinds us to what's really happening, which is that we're avoiding difficult conversations.
> What words do you think we abuse in programming?
"Technical"
It's abused in the programming community in the sense that it's used as a work dividing line. For example, if a programmer starts talking about the details of program, and all of a sudden, those "technical details" that many members aren't concerned with.
The reality is, though everything, from the quarterly earnings, to your client's names, are all "technical details," and the issue isn't that one is perceived as programming or the other marketing, it's that everyone in the business universally struggles to communicate what benefit their areas of responsibility cover.
I'm picking on technical specifically because programmers take pride in being perceived as such, and that pride often blinds us to what's really happening, which is that we're avoiding difficult conversations.