Comment Re:Which is the most counterproductive act of all. (Score 1) 572
That was only after the initial failure occurred though. Fuel pumps most certainly did not always have breakaway nozzles for instance.
Every time you make something idiot proof the world produces a better idiot. Sometimes it's not even an intelligence issue, I had a manager that was dead set against any change whatsoever. When we were developing the new app we engaged her much as she would allow and the final product was still missing giant pieces of functionality because she didn't want change. When your project gets sabotaged like that it's hard to blame the programmer for not knowing every detail of the business when the person providing the business logic is actively working against them.
Alas, that's more of a problem with executive management being on different pages as well. The owner/CEO forcing his will on the president despite objections to timing and scope. Regardless, all that is out of the developers hands and can result in poor quality even if he/she is a skilled coder.