As someone who audits IT projects for a living, I have seen this a lot. It bewilders me sometimes..but then, I do realize that as in all professions, IT-ians are also so caught up with the daily hum-drum that they somehow fail to see the big picture.
I have seen project teams who just do what they are asked to do without questioning the rhyme or reason for doing it.
Why is it? Is it because IT is making its foray into such diverse fields of business that it is impossible for a Java programmer to understand banking terms in one project and then start all over again and learn the minutia of manufacturing in the next ?
That could be a good reason..but I would have thought that once an engineer, always an engineer. Someone who has gone through Engineering would try to ask questions...not maybe to understand everything, but atleast to be able to hold ground when talking to the functional experts.
Another field where this diversity of knowledge would be applicable would be management. Folks coming out of Business Schools might be facing the same problems, albeit to a lesser extent. They come with a generic broad knowledge base and are asked to learn the jargon of the specific industry in which they are employed and turn things around.
Maybe it is a good skill to acquire - curiosity.... Picking up tidbits and trying to make threads out of it is something that every IT-ian would require more and more as IT starts pervading every known field in life.
Maybe, one day, you as a software professional would need to learn how to make dal tadka so you can design a cookery software !!!
Lousy example...but I hope I make my point.
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