I agree with you... mostly. I do find it frustrating that almost all the effort is expected to be on the technical personnel. I don't care if you are a "business" person (aren't we all?), I don't care if your job is sales, or product management, if you deal with software all day, you should put the effort in to understand it.
There is an expectation that the technical person has to explain everything at 100 different levels of detail, depending on the composition of the people in the room. But there often isn't the reciprocal expectation that the non-technical people put some effort in. If you work with a technical subject and you can't understand it, past a certain point, that is on you.
It's your job to understand this stuff, do your fucking job.
There is an expectation that the technical person has to explain everything at 100 different levels of detail, depending on the composition of the people in the room. But there often isn't the reciprocal expectation that the non-technical people put some effort in. If you work with a technical subject and you can't understand it, past a certain point, that is on you.
It's your job to understand this stuff, do your fucking job.