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From: jss@hector.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
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Subject: Re: "Expertise"
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Date: 6 Apr 89 20:40:38 GMT
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Computer Science != Programming Knowledge != Domain knowledge

When you're designing a software system you need all three.   Usually
you can't find a single individual with all three so you need a team.

Frequently this is not recognized and somebody with one or two of
these skill above thinks that the other kinds of knowledge are
"trivial" and can be "picked up" as one goes along.

Jerry Schwarz
AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill

(P.S. I've dropped comp.lang.c++ from the groups this goes to since
it doesn't seem to belong there.  On the other hand thats the only
one of the groups I read regularly.)