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If I was writing surgery robot software I very much would want a surgeon sitting next to me, or at the very least available for a chat on a reasonably short order. Collaboration is a force multiplier. Unavailability of domain knowledge is a major reason why so much domain-specific software sucks.



"Theoretically" agile means that you have an easy access to the customer to help you with decision making and changing requirements.

Unfortunately its VERY rare to meet that requirement for agile (multiple reasons).

For mission critical projects like the one you mention, I think, company should pay good money even to few surgeons to be available for the devs.

Problem often lies in management to understand that..


Yep, and that’s one of the reasons I feel I’m pretty much done with programming as a day jon.


I'd want a surgeon who extensively used the previous version of the surgery robot. :)




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