We sit in a meeting and discuss some feature, there are two new devs in the room, I am dev as well but I worked with those business people for quite some time.
Business people start talking about "generic solution" and I already hear devs asking questions/talking like they are preparing to build "reusable and flexible framework for all your needs".
Where "generic solution" for business was maybe 2 or 3 types of texts with possibility to add maybe 1 at some point. But that was nowhere near what devs were imagining especially when "generic types" has specific meaning for programming languages.
Translating from business terminology to developer terminology is always fun, especially when they use the exact same words.
One of the first times I encountered it at the early web, when a customer wants you to 'connect' two systems, before you start analysing the data models, first check if maybe all he wanted was a hyperlink.
We sit in a meeting and discuss some feature, there are two new devs in the room, I am dev as well but I worked with those business people for quite some time.
Business people start talking about "generic solution" and I already hear devs asking questions/talking like they are preparing to build "reusable and flexible framework for all your needs".
Where "generic solution" for business was maybe 2 or 3 types of texts with possibility to add maybe 1 at some point. But that was nowhere near what devs were imagining especially when "generic types" has specific meaning for programming languages.