{"id":2411,"date":"2006-12-04T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/dont-let-management-architect-a-solution\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:48:58","slug":"dont-let-management-architect-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/dont-let-management-architect-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t let management architect a solution&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen many cases where business people and technical people collide.&#160; Part of building an effective business requires understanding and respecting the various departments in an organization and their individual areas of expertise.&#160; But too often, cross-departmental decisions are driven by the wrong people.&#160; The results are less than spectacular, though not unexpected considering the situation.&#160; Here&#8217;s a link to a story about just such a situation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywtf.com\/forums\/thread\/104727.aspx\">No, We Need a Neural Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the man for two things.&#160; First, trying to turn management away from a bad decision at every step along the way.&#160; Second, for making a killing off the company when they failed to heed his warning.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, however, I should note that business people are not the only ones who engage in activities outside their expertise.&#160; I&#8217;ve seen technical people try to make business and marketing decisions with similar results.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen many cases where business people and technical people collide.&#160; Part of building an effective business requires understanding and respecting the various departments in an organization and their individual areas of expertise.&#160; But too often, cross-departmental decisions are driven by the wrong people.&#160; The results are less than spectacular, though not unexpected considering the&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41463,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/41463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}