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On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 07:42, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Related orthogonally to the flexibility and grunt
> work assessment that I do agree with: the problem
> I have with so many tools today is that the engineers
> have succeeded spectacularly at enabling us to get
> information into the systems, and failed almost as
> spectacularly at enabling us to get information out.
>
but any useful system is
inputs -> transfer function(s) -> outputs
anything else is stamp collecting
rick
> How many projects have you worked on where the
> requirements have been driven almost exclusively
> by one culture of the data entry specialists? Udell
> makes reference to the social life of XML documents
> in his current xml.com article. Isn't this a redux
> of what we were talking about in the heyday of
> comp.text.sgml?
>
> Over the holidays, I stumbled over a TAG (the mag,
> not the group) article that I wrote in 1992 describing
> feedback adaptation, enterprise integration, chaotic
> systems, and so on. It is 2004 and we are still working
> on the same problems. Whoda thunk it...
>
> len
>
>
> From: David Megginson [mailto:dmeggin@attglobal.net]
>
> It would probably work very well if problems remained constant throughout a
> project (like, say, building a bridge across a river), but in high tech,
> they do not -- we have only a limited need for people who can create an
> algorithm to do a computation in Olog(n) instead of On(log(n)), but we have
> an enormous need for people who can track changing requirements and
> userscapes and refactor code violently and continuously to match them, and
> we have an even bigger need for people who help build consensus and
> communities of users. It's mostly flexibility and unscientific grunt work
> that brings success.
>
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