The owner of a small business needed a computer-based accounting system. One day, he
identified the various inputs and outputs he felt were required to satisfy his needs. Then
he showed his design to a computer programmer and asked the programmer if she could
implement such a system. The programmer knew she could implement the system
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because she had developed much more sophisticated systems in the past. In fact, she
thought this design was rather crude and would soon need several major revisions. But
she didn’t say anything about her thoughts, because the business owner didn’t ask, and
she hoped she might be hired to implement the needed revisions.
Response :
The programmer’s decision not to point out the design flaws was: