[Sigia-l] visio feature improvements - why bother?

[Todd R.Warfel]

Ideal:
- We get to pick what tool we use to create IA, workflows, process 
diagrams, etc. Nobody tells us what to eat, what to wear, what to 
think...

Reality:
- Sometimes we're forced to use whatever tool someone gives us.

When working for myself, heading up an in-house team, or running my own 
business, more often than not, I get to choose my own tools to create 
this type of thing.

When I've come in as a consultant, on contract, from time to time, I've 
been "asked" to do the diagrams in Visio, because that's what they use 
already. And while I'm faster in Illustrator and OmniGraffle than 
Visio, because that's what I use, they insist that I use Visio. Same 
thing with what platform - Mac vs. PC. I can use both, but I have my 
preference. I have been put in positions before that required me to use 
one over the other. Some places don't care about what tool works better 
for you, or which one you're more efficient on. They simply care about 
making you conform.

You can argue that I "had a choice to take the job or not," but that's 
not realistic, as the "request" to use Visio doesn't happen until after 
you're in the door.

There's ideology and then there's reality. Or, there's theory and then 
there's practice.

On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 10:57  PM, Listera wrote:

> Well, you managed to miss the entire point. I don't *need* anyone else 
> to
> tell me what to "wear, eat, think, dress, or to do my work". In fact I 
> don't
> *want* anyone to tell me what tools to use at all.

Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel

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but in practice, they're not .

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