> This is a statement I might question.
> Well, OK, they MIGHT very well hire "very different
> people" - but NEED they?
>
> You also said,
> "Now I can do some web GUI stuff. I used to do some web
> design work. I was never good, but I used to do some. And
> this is where things stand out. Because I know I was
> never good . . .".
>
> Yet you also have some opinions on what looks bad or
> good, and what works. I daresay you (as am I, and most
> of us) are a user of GUI screens. I'll bet that you
> know a GREAT DEAL about good GUI design, simply because
> you have the experience and the opinions. The rest is
> simply learning that aspect of the craft, isn't it?
>
> Is it that you need GUI-specific agilists, or is it that
> you need GUI-seasoned agile generalists?
>
> What am I missing?
If I'm going to do GUI work I need more experience than doing part
time GUI work is going to provide. I also need to be in a GUI mindset.
I need to think about things differently. There's a lot of things I
need to keep in mind when doing GUI work, and if I approach GUI
work with a model frame of mind I find I'm not thinking about all the
right things.
Some people have said that the usability expert is part of the
customer team. I don''t agree with that. A lot of our programmers
have business knowledge and we find that knowledge very important.
In fact I'd say that teaming programmers with no smalltalk experience
but lots of domain experience with experienced smalltalkers with no
domain experience has produced great results. If I was doing web
GUI work, having an experienced web page designer learning a
programming language pairing with a language expert interested in
learning web technology, graphics, and usability would be a great
combination.
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