As a literal example, I've occasionally been asked to put some process that was previously done physically "on the computer". That is, perhaps a paper log of some important activity that they'd now like to have a program for, or a physical token system for tracking a critical resource.
Often computerizing is useful, but sometimes it turns out that any conceivable software version would actually be significantly worse than what they're already doing.
In a case like that, you truly can solve their problem by not writing any code.
(Obviously, this only works if they ultimately agree.)
Often computerizing is useful, but sometimes it turns out that any conceivable software version would actually be significantly worse than what they're already doing.
In a case like that, you truly can solve their problem by not writing any code.
(Obviously, this only works if they ultimately agree.)