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My 30 years of Software Development Methodology:

* The user is more important than any of this. * The programmer is nothing. * The computer is doing all the work.

Thus: use what makes all the above, True.



What does "the programmer is nothing" mean?


I'm guessing this means, if the software works and can be maintained as the users (by that I mean client and the owner) needs it to be maintained, then all considerations are satisfied. Other considerations of aesthetics, architecture, language should be set aside.


Yup, you get it.


By the way: I think this is brilliant.


Thanks!


And "the computer does all the work"?


I'm guessing: The machine does what the user (client and org) expects effectively in a way that they easily understand.


Automate manual processes




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