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- From: David Byrden <goyra@iol.ie>
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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 19:53:33 GMT
- Organization: Ireland On-Line
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- javaprog@best.com (John Lockwood) wrote:
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- >>If the programmer, or head programmer of a group, has not lived with
- >>the client's job long enought to do it, and do it well - s/he has no
- >>business writing any code for that job.
- >
- >So, if a hospital administrator wants to hire my company to write some
- >hospital administrator software, then we all have to be software
- >administrators? I guess I have too much faith in the ability of
- >hospital administrators and programmers to communicate in a common
- >language with one another, much as we are doing now, to find your
- >position tennable.
- >Regards,
- >
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- John, I disagree. Hospital administrators may be very good at their
- job, and yet be quite bad at remembering and accurately describing what
- they do.
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- In that position, I would insist that yes, at least two members of the
- software team should trail around after the administrator for a few days,
- asking what is happening and making notes, and trying out prototypes of
- the software interface right there on the spot.
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- David
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