You don’t have to code it but you do have to pseudo-code it

You're nowhere unless you understand how the software either works or needs to work. This is the gap, generally speaking.

If you don't understand how the software works now, you won't be able to bridge the gap between the software devs and the business.

If you don't know how the business works now, you don't know what you're doing or why. You're about to get fired; you're dead weight.

Somewhere between these two worlds are people with the skills to bridge that gap; to bring needs into reality and to bring technical opportunities and problems into the light of day.

These people are the real leaders in our organizations; not people who take one side or the other but get both intimately.