Issues with the manager

Designing by #Volatility decomposition comes with its challenges. The greatest of them all is dealing with the managers.

Raging managers

“WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG TO ADVANCE???” — the manager

Designing from volatility-based decomposition takes time. Much, much longer time than #Functional decomposition, especially when you start out.

By this reason, the managers will breathe down your neck, dubious to the work you’re putting into the design to make it not fail.

You will have to master volatility decomposition before you can try it out on live projects, because the time limit will mean your manager will pull the plug before the first line of code has already been written, or just let someone else do the designing that they know can do it quicker.

Managers will never understand.

Managers don’t want the truth

The truth is that when managers tries to rush the design (as they’ve always tried), which resulted in them getting the product quickly out the door (as they’ve always wanted), they end up killing the project because it was haphazardly put together (which they always are).

You cannot simply convince them “just like that”. Because of how it looks right now, No one understands they are killing projects, and no one would want to receive nor accept that fact.

Managers don’t want to understand.

Dunning-Kruger effect

“Bias of unskilled people”

The managers will be the most unskilled people you will meet when it comes to designing software. Therefore, they will assume it is easy, or that it can be done quickly.

References

• J. Löwy (January 27, 2021), “Righting Software - System Design” [Workshop], NDC London 2021.