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Re: I've been wrong all along...more pictures less words
Subject:Re: I've been wrong all along...more pictures less words From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:27:52 -0700 (PDT)
I am referring to the software under development - which may include automation of previously manual procedure. If we had a monkey calculating sales tax using banana peels, and we are now developing a software program to automatically calculate the sales tax, the monkey, banana peels, and the monkey's thought process in using the banana peels would be the As-Is for the application being developed.
Richard Lewis
Lets hear it for the monkey!
John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
I think you switched gears on us after my response. It now occurs to me that what you are refering to as YOUR as-is, is a business process. MY as-is was the application that is being developed.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
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From: Richard Lewis
To: Gene Kim-Eng ; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:08:43 PM
Subject: Re: I've been wrong all along...more pictures less words
Your company creates software that does not fulfill any existing needs? A business customer without any current software has an As-Is situation. It is just that computers are not used as a mechanism to accomplish tasks.
Richard Lewis
Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
This must be another one of those "how are things on your planet"
moments for me. In the industries I work in, we write our
requirmeent specs when there is no "as-is." The specs lay out
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