alt Hacker NewsWhen the product you're developing is governed by regulations and standards you need to comply, owning your craft is doing things by the book, not adding fields on your own because it might be useful later.
When the product you're developing is governed by regulations and standards you need to comply, owning your craft is doing things by the book, not adding fields on your own because it might be useful later.
So what? I've worked places with lots of regulation. Part of every development job is learning the product domain. In that case devs become comfortable with reading standard/law/regulations and anticipating when software implementation might interact with the areas covered.
Sure there were people who's job was to offload as much compliance work from everyone else; by turning it into internal requirements, participating in design discussion and specializing in ensuring compliance. But trying to isolate the development team from it is just asking for micromanagers.