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- From: javaprog@best.com (John Lockwood)
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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 06:40:09 GMT
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- David Byrden <goyra@iol.ie> wrote:
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- >>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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- > 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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- Which is quite a different thing from being a hospital administrator.
- What you're being there is a software engineer communicating with a
- hospital administrator. Q.E.D.
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- John
- Regards,
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- John Lockwood
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