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: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:37:36 -0700 (PDT)



Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

However, do you agree that there has to be some specs in place before you start creating the actual banana peel calculator?

Richard Lewis:

The banana peels are only a mechanism of the As-Is. The As-Is is the primary input to creating the specs.


Richard Lewis:


>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.





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