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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 07:49:43 GMT
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- In article <BYtKnOggyTxQ071yn@oslonett.no>, bollerud@oslonett.no says...
- >
- >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.
- Svein, Obviously this is my opinion and is therefore worth exactly what
- you paid for it. However, IMHO, the relationship betweem a salesman and
- a client and a programmer is similar to that of an
- architect/client/builder. All three need to interact but with regards
- different topics. The client and the sales droid need to discuss what it
- is the client wants. The droid and the programmer need to discuss how
- that fits in with what the dev. company does and then the client and the
- programmer need to discuss certain specifics (blue taps or green taps).
-
- Again just my perspective from having grown up with an architect for a
- father and being an A/P by trade.
-
- Ciao
- Jo
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