
able, etc. And one pi…re defined, applied and controlled. You do this because of quality and non-functional requirements. You want to have a system which is maintainable, reliable, adaptable, secure, testable, salable, usable, etc. And one piece to achieve all these quality attributes is to apply good architecture work. You could…
I had to be advised multiple times under these conditions before I realized I should aim to withhold advice until someone has asked for it. Sometimes people just want to vent. Sometimes they already know what they’re doing wrong, or what they’d like to change, and they’re just attempting to articulate the problem so that they can more clearly see the solution, but now they’re kinda sidetracked because they’re considering how your hypothetical advice may or may not figure into the actual experience they’re having, the original problem having officially been backburnered at this point, which. And it’s okay — I’m spelling this out precisely because my efforts to express empathy often manifest in me asserting authority over a situation I have not experienced, and I know most times advising someone who hasn’t asked to be is more a misguided gesture of goodwill than anything else. No judgments there.