[jplusequalt]

What role do you serve in this process?

I can take all of those steps, turn them into separate skills, then give them to a product manager or business analyst who makes half your salary, but has far more knowledge about the customers needs than you do.

[ipaddr]

A business analyst or product managers spends most of their time in meetings understanding customer requirements. Now they have to find time to build the project and fix bugs?

The business analyst use to hand off details to another person who would define detail technical specs like database fields names, type and size. Then the programmer would implement it.

[tedmiston]

the creative inputs to the whole process and judgment aspects of telling it how to refine and edit

[jplusequalt]

>the creative inputs to the whole process and judgment aspects of telling it how to refine and edit

Why does that require an engineer? I think a business analyst or product manager could do that just fine.