Doug, This process has saved my butt many times to be sure. I think everyone who's in the business knows the story.
(Manager) "hmm.. yah, can we change the e-mail address on the login screen to be a username instead", of course this request is naturally followed with "that won't take long right?". It's surprising (although it shouldn't be) how a tiny little requirements adjustment like that can end up touching a handful of different files (not to mention the database) when you're working with a fully implemented system. If we're talking about an HTML prototype the change takes maybe 15 minutes, tops. There's nothing like the pleasure in a client's voice when you ask them to refresh their page before they've even gotten off the phone and their request is a reality (even if they turn around and ask you to change it back). I find the IDA process allows developers to align their goals with that of the client and "give em' what they want", without concern for the hours of hard coding work you'd have to throw away. If we can do this, we're truly free to lookout for our client's best interests. In some ways the flow or "tempo" of the project is slowed down and it's surprising how innovation will just happen when we're not resisting change. I'll ask Judith to post my slides on the site, though I'm sure they're very enlightening all by themselves. The real credit for the vision of IDA (and FliP for that matter) got to "the man himself" (Hal Helms). But if you'd like to discuss specifics of the methodology I'm always game. There's an IDA "handbook" aimed at managers and clients currently in production. When it's 100% we may decide to make it available to the developer public. -- Clark Valberg >thanks for the reply! > >Any materials to post on >http://www.nycfug.org/dispatch.cfm?a=home.homeconcerning your talk? > >Yeah, sounded like the idea covered in FliP, was just digging around and >can't find much on the phrase "Interface Driven Architecture". Wondered if >its a a new term, re-invented term, or what. Its mostly what my team does, >though we've not followed this approach as much as we should have, talking >of technology a wee bit too early. Wanted to start reading up on this, have >access to Safari On-line and was looking around. > >DK > > >On 12/26/06, Clark Valberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265057 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
