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Subject:Re: Requirements From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Jim Barrow <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:14:21 -0700 (PDT)
Sounds like a typical Use Case driven project. Another classic case of the user's-world discovery process being derailed. (With Use Cases, developers typcially jump right into the To-Be (including imagined To-Be's)).
These developers are probably not going to change their approach. A new champion of the user is needed.
Richard Lewis
Jim Barrow <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
End-user: "We need to be able to see the status of a task in real time."
Developer: "You need a portal that can do a single sign-on."
End-user: "Um...okay."
But I digress. The question remains, however: Do you think that developers should be involved in this porcess?
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