[Sigia-l] Re: Sigia-l Digest, Vol 8, Issue 13

[Bockie, Marvin (Bruce)]

I agree with Mr. Parker.  Far to often IT people forget that not everyone is interested in the IT world.  This is very myopic of us.  The Business is the most important thing and we must endeavor to talk in their language - not ours.  In fact I know some very high powered Architect types that believe that the Business is the Architecture (in actuality or defacto).  It took me a while to learn that, also.

	Bruce Bockie

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On May 14, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Ziya wrote:

> There's absolutely, positively no rational (!) reason to subject
> non-programmers to UML. None. Not a single non-programmer anywhere  
> on the
> design chain should be subjected to "education" (or other forms of  
> cruel and
> unusual punishment) to learn UML to grasp "top level domain model",  
> site
> structure, app architecture, etc.

I heartily agree. If you can't (or won't) explain the main  
architecture, UI design and every bit of exposed functionality to  
*any* non-programmer in their native language and in simple, easy-to- 
grasp concepts, you either have a serious design problem or you need  
to hire someone with better language skills.

Personally, I think that a project that can't be explained to mere  
mortals without a PowerPoint deck and UML diagrams is doomed to  
failure from the start.

- Will

Will Parker | macartisan at mac.com | http://macartisan.blogspot.com
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not  
tried it" - Donald Knuth




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