Except I’m a business analyst. I have to communicate with both the business and the programmers. And because of all the Indian dialects they come from, the one common language they have is English. Bad english.
And my job is to communicate with both sides. :(
I’m 66 and my father died two days ago. I’m seriously thinking of retiring. Now. I just found out I can get unemployment even though I’m getting SS. I also just finished my 30x60 garage/mancave. I fully expect to be doing projects that I choose to do, and that can bring in some money if I really need it. I may just retire and milk this system for all the cash I can get and get out of the daily stress of this communication mess.
Sorry to hear about your father.
I’ve developed business applications from conception, use-case definition, HMI mock ups, system design, module implementation, testing, rollout, etc...
When I could get ALL my users in the same room, speaking fluent English, going over the same use-cases, presenting the same HMI, I experienced NUMEROUS occasions when we all thought we were on the same page - UNTIL that ‘one little detail’ didn’t make sense to somebody...which unraveled an entire aspect of understanding.
I moved away from this type of software, got into embedded systems. It was good timing, the entire team I used to work with on those projects were replaced by a team located in India.
I chuckled to myself about that prior project, imagining just how it could possibly have been successful if we weren’t together, speaking fluent English - being able to ARTICULATE thoughts carefully. Without it, the project would have been a disaster. I can only imagine how many times this must have happened.
...then I hear stats like ‘50% of all I.T. apps fail’. Hmmmmm.....