I think Business decisions are less and less in touch with the technical realities.
I just quit a full time job in a Huge-Non Profit where my main project was to make a simple CRM, based on about 10 simple but intertwined tables. This CRM would have saved the hours of hundreds of overworked/burned out people.
The frontend was made entirely with Bootstrap. A functional, life-saving MVP without any dynamic content could have been made in a month with a team of 3 developers.
However, all of the feedback we constantly got was only to make it look more modern and dynamic (and debatably worse from a UX standpoint).
Mid-development we were forced to add Vue.js to our tech stack. I quit because my conflicts with the business side were becoming hopeless, the project has still not seen an MVP, 1.5 years and two avoidable burnouts in the making.
My thinking is that people feel the need to deliver something as modern and sexy as possible to get more credit. Completely losing track of the functional aspects of things.
>The frontend was made entirely with Bootstrap. A functional, life-saving MVP without any dynamic content could have been made in a month with a team of 3 developers.
The correct answer should have been to go with Salesforce Non profit cloud, or select one of many competitors. To develop a CRM from scratch is always a bad idea.
I just quit a full time job in a Huge-Non Profit where my main project was to make a simple CRM, based on about 10 simple but intertwined tables. This CRM would have saved the hours of hundreds of overworked/burned out people.
The frontend was made entirely with Bootstrap. A functional, life-saving MVP without any dynamic content could have been made in a month with a team of 3 developers.
However, all of the feedback we constantly got was only to make it look more modern and dynamic (and debatably worse from a UX standpoint).
Mid-development we were forced to add Vue.js to our tech stack. I quit because my conflicts with the business side were becoming hopeless, the project has still not seen an MVP, 1.5 years and two avoidable burnouts in the making.
My thinking is that people feel the need to deliver something as modern and sexy as possible to get more credit. Completely losing track of the functional aspects of things.