Henry Lenzi wrote at 08/04/2014 07:43 PM:
By the way, if you guys had any idea of the buggy stuff people sell to the health sector. The atrocious VB, MFC C++, Java... I'm not even goint to mention security..
Heh. I have seen some of that, and actually suggested to one of my consulting clients that they consider diversifying into this application domain. I suspect that one "dream team" would have a mix of domain experts, people who understand the legacy/contemporary software systems and history, a couple top architects/gurus, and solid software engineers and human factors engineers who are sharp and flexible enough to work within the framework that the architects/gurus lead.
(I separate out architects/gurus for this particular field because there seems to be a need to shake things up right now with technical direction. However, I *don't* mean an antiquated chief programmer model, which I think led many to view software development as top-down management of clerical workers, especially in corporate MIS-like shops, and which I suspect has been a big contributor to many gazillion-dollar IT failures.)
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