How to handle management trying to interfere with the project (including architecture decision)
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I feel this is not a very good question to post on SO, but I need some advice from experienced developers... (I'm a second year developer)
I guess this is a problem to many, many projects, but in our case, it is getting intense. There were so much interference from people that don't know a bit about software development, that our development came to an almost complete stop. We had to literary escape to another location to get any useful job done.
Now we were happily producing results, but then I get a request for a "meeting" and it's them again. I have a friendly relationship with them, but I feel very daunted at the thought of talking about non-sense all over again.
Should I be firm and tell them to shut up and wait for our results? Or should I be diplomatic and create an illusion they are making a positive contribution or something??
My current urge is to be unfriendly and murmur some stuff so they will give up or something.
What would you do if you were in this situation?
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