[150818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Mar 5 18:58:19 2012
In-Reply-To: <4A83E8A0-E655-4C92-95C9-E0C26DBB218F@delong.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 18:57:00 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> However, the bigger problem (from my experience-driven
>POV) is that it is not so intuitively obvious that developing
>a network-based product using a team consisting entirely
>of developers who view the network as an unnecessarily
>complicated serial port (which, really is about the approach
>most developers seem to take to networking) is also
>doomed to a certain amount of failure.
Owen,
Surely you don't mean to suggest that having someone with domain
knowledge develop a set of requirements and then kick it over the wall
to folks who know how to program but have no domain knowledge is a
recipe for failure? That having linchpin members of the team with core
competencies in both software development -and- the product-relevant
knowledge domains is critical to success?
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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