Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers

[Ron Thompson <thompsor@admin.tc.faa.gov>]

jkrell@nswc.navy.mil (James Krell) wrote:
>Is it better to take engineers/scientists who understand the system Or is it better to take programmers
>and teach them about the radar system?
>
 Is it better to take individuals who know the
>tactical and technical  aspects of the command and control system 
>and teach them how to program or is it better to take programmers 
>and teach them about the command and control system?
>
>
>James Krell
>jkrell@nswc.navy.mil
>

Build a team, a team composed of both types plus the usual
management and budget and contracts and lawyers. Neither group
can grasp all of the other groups' concerns sufficiently.

If you made one group into the other, even temporarily, what
would you do to futures of either? Who needs Engineers when
we can just make the Programmers into them whenever we need
to?

A team of Engineers/Programmers can rely on one another to
accomplish the task. 

rct

The opinions above are mine and mine alone.