alt Hacker News> "requirements were always the bottleneck"
> "faster typing won't make you faster".....
I understand a Deloitte consultant has specific incentives. But let's first try to answer a baseline question: why do some companies have thousands of software engineers? What do they all do?
And then, a follow-up: what is actually the bottleneck at most companies? What causes "requirements gathering" to take long?
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JackSlateur • today at 3:11 PM
What do they do ? Give power to their management ? "I am responsible for 50 people, I am important". "I managed over 250, I am important, give me money".
Isn't the answer to both questions straightforward? Real life is complex and has nearly infinite degrees of freedom. This means it's hard to approximate in software. Over time, real life, your understanding of it and your approximation (the software) all change. Keeping the approximation accurate enough that it's useful takes considerable effort since now you need to understand both the real life and the previously existing approximation of it.