[Sigia-l] Card sorting

[Bill Killam]

Andrew states....

> one of the reasons I've used card sorting in the past is a way to discover
these structures when the BA (including myself) has missed them or allocated
an inappropriately low priority to them.

[snip]

>That and the end user engagement aspect that others have mentioned are two
>key reasons why I will continue to use card sorting wherever appropriate.

As do I.  But the question posed was how can you tell the card sort
developed structure will work.  The answer being - by realizing that the
development of the structure is bottom up but its use is top down so it has
to be tested in a top down environment.

Bill
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