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re: Collaborating in Among the Weeds
 a reply to Collaborating in Among the Weedsby Vaughan Merlyn on Jun 02, 2008 - 07:54 AM read 133 times |
Roy, this is a great post, and, once again, you've hit upon an important reality around collaboration. Your final point reminded me of the classic cartoon, the caption of which is, "I'll go up and find out what the users want, and the rest of you start coding!"
I thought I might be able to track down the cartoon (I remember using it in presentations about 20+ years ago!) by Googling the quote. Funnily enough, I found quite a few references to the caption, but none to the original cartoon. My point here is that in the world of systems development, this phenomenon of failing to collaborate on problem definition, or on the detail is so common that the cartoon has become a cliche. It will be interesting to see how, over time, we learn to use Web 2.0 capabilities to correct this strange dysfunctionality.
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