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- From: bollerud@oslonett.no (Svein Olav Mytting)
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- Subject: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 23:41:59 +0100
- Organization: Bollerud Data, Europe
- Message-ID: <BYtKnOggyTxQ071yn@oslonett.no>
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- I know a lot of you programmers work far from the end-users. Some of you
- work even far from your employer, which in turn lives far from the
- customer.
-
- I sort of believe that sales and programming should be strictly
- separate tasks. While a salesman should see his customer in person,
- a programmer shouldn't do that.
-
- My simple question is this: To which a degree can software development
- be done using electronic communication as the only contact with the
- sales people and/or end users?
-
- Or, to put it another way: How special-tailored can an application be,
- before the programmer has to physically be in the client's office?
-
- Or, yet another way: What is the cost, for a programmer,
- of not meeting the end user physically?
-
- Experience with geographically split cooperation
- customers / sales people / programmers
- would be of major interest.
-
- And, one more thing: Are there good books around on this or related issues?
-
- Please answer by e-mail, or copy to e-mail if posting to group.
- Note the cross-posting, be careful with postings of limited interest.
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- Svein Olav Mytting, Europe Time has come to limit democracy
- E-mail: bollerud@oslonett.no
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