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- From: Ari Lukumies <aril@cmt.lpr.mail.carel.fi>
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- Subject: Re: Can we do programming without seeing the end user?
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:15:04 +0200
- Organization: Carelcomp Products
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- David N. Smith wrote:
- >
- > Like the old expression "I may not know art, but I know what I like!",
- > the customer usually DOES know when they do NOT like what is delivered.
- >
-
- Alas... At one time years back there was a project of building a customized system
- for a customer. Their representative didn't comment on almost anything during the
- design/review stage (he actually accepted everything). Only after some parts of
- the system were ready, he said something like, "That's good, but not even close to
- what I had in mind." That brought to my mind a Murphy's law (or sth), "The
- customer doesn't usually know what he wants, but it's certainly something else
- than what you'll deliver." Fortunately, these days this kind of attitude is not so
- dominant any more. Another quite similar attitude used to be the customers who
- said, "We want this system to have at least these features." How do you figure out
- the cost or the schedule for "at least"?
-
- Later,
- AriL
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- All my opinions are mine and mine alone and not those of my employer.
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