Re: It's not just designers
Too many people in Techie jobs seem to be so busy that they cut out the 'Waste of time' talking to users to understand their jobs.
That may be so, but in my company (which isn't a traditional tech outfit) any software (indeed and business change) is fashionably dubbed MVP by the powers that be. This is term that they've picked up from tech hipsters and management consultants, and our management curiously believe that this term justifies a half baked spec, an ugly and ineffectual interface, minimal testing, and often broken processes. And the reason they believe that is because they think that it means faster development, faster to market, lower cost, and the "opportunity to learn and improve".
So at this company, loads of "change" people, loads of "scrum masters", lots of "agile". But little in the way of real expertise at any stage of software development, and no desire at all to really find out what the needs of the user are.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
