On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > The client doesn;t send Big Chief to sit with the designers, instead
>
> 'designers' is kind of the wrong term with XP.
agreed
> > they send Useless Minion. UM is positive and helpful and gives quick
> > decisions ona whole variety of topics. And a week later turns up
> > with changes handed down by Big Chief overiding those decisions.
> > worse still the decisions handed down make no sense because he
> > hasn;t been with the team and doesn;t undrstand whats going on.
>
> This one is, potentially a problem. I'd say that, as a company
> consulting with the company you make *bloody* sure that the client is
> aware of the importance of the 'on site' customer, and of their status
> as final arbiter. It's also stressed that the OSC can say "I'll get
> back to you on that", but a lot of the time questions that need to be
> answered are uncontroversial and can be answered trivially even by a
> UM.
in my experience getting simlpe concepts across to large and
important clients can sometimes be difficult when a) the subject has a
funny word in it like 'computer' and b) they don't know what that word
means.
I just can;t help wondering if it will work .. if it does then I will be
no 1 happy bunny. I have XP installed sitting right here and tagged up
for a re-read this week (i'm having a month or so off to recover from a
12 month period of development with little breaks) ...
and this template toolit thing rocks dunnit .. (now I have the hang of it
.. sorta)
--
Robin Szemeti
The box said "requires windows 95 or better"
So I installed Linux!
