[pandler]

> every engineering solution is accompanied by a business solution

This cannot be stressed enough. Replace "business" with X. Engineering is rarely isolated. More often than not, constraints on time, budget, usability, customer relations, etc... are just as important as the down-and-dirty engineering constraints themselves.

This applies to all engineering. It is much more obvious, in some fields than others, though. E.g. material costs are easy to perform a cost/benefit analysis on, whereas software is generally more abstract.