I agree Jeffrey. However, I think this can be corrected. On the one hand, I think the situation in regards to this is much different today than even 5 or 6 years ago. My team at work is one part in Boston, one part in the Bay Area, one part in Japan, and one part in Scotland. Using email, videoconferencing, vpn and vnc technologies etc and using the same design specs there are few hurdles to jump. So you could have system architects or whatever here in the Bay Area communicating to people in India. In fact, this is what is happening. And a lot of the Indian SW developers who have been working here are being sent back to India and implementing the various methodologies that they have learned here.
In other words, I recognize what you are saying about the seperation of design and coding, but while this may have been a problem in the past and may still be to some extent, it can and will be corrected.
Thomas
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