You nailed it Rick! Also once filled out it cannot be "resubmitted/retaken" Doug
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Windows UserID ** OK, let me see if I can be more clear in my objections. Your management, for some unexplained reason, wants to know who is filling out the surveys. You are trying to satisfy that requirement technically. I am trying to address it from a business perspective, and that almost always starts with the question "Why?". The only reason I can guess for that is that they want to be sure that the person filling it out is the person to whom it was directed. Let's look at three factors in that. * How valuable is knowing who actually filled out the survey, from a practical standpoint? What will be done with those metrics, if anything? * What are the chances of accidental misuse? * Since the surveys are only sent to the person who is supposed to have them, making it pretty difficult for User2 to even know that a survey is available for User1. It would be MORE work for someone to try to answer someone else's survey than to just do the ones they get sent, and most people don't even fill THOSE out. So practically speaking, there is very little chance of an accidental misuse of the survey. * What is the likelihood of intentional misuse? * Are they concerned that there will be an epidemic of people taking surveys for other people? Do they think their people have so little to do that they will spend even free time spoofing other users to fill out their surveys? If so, they have a bigger problem than satisfying this requirement could possibly address. So the likelihood of intentional misuse is again, effectively zero. So my analysis is that what they might gain by the satisfaction of this requirement seems insignificant compared to the work of satisfying it. I fail to see ANY worthwhile business justification for this requirement, and in the absence of same, as a developer, I would reject it for that reason alone until it is better thought through by the business leaders. Rick On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Veeral Oza <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: DISCLAIMER Important! This message is intended for the above named person(s) only and is CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and have received it in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and then delete it from your mailbox. This message may be protected by the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine. Accessing, copying, disseminating or re-using any of the information contained in this e-mail by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. Finally, you should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses, as the sender accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Thank you. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
