“In all other construction disciplines, engineers plan a construction strategy that craftmen execute. Engineers don't build bridges; ironworkers do. Only in software is the engineer tasked with actually building the product. Only in software is the "ironworker" tasked with determining how the product will be constructed.”
― Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44098.The_Inmates_Are_Running_the_Asylum
(I haven't read this book; just saw this quote, thanks indirectly to a different recommendation by Skewray)
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