[Sigia-l] Enterprise IA 95% un-sexy?

[Timothy Karsjens]

Eh.  I guess I am in the 5%.

I hate working on consumer driven sites.  I love working on the very complex applications that are normally present in intranets and extranets. 

The largest publicly facing site I worked on only consisted of around 20 dynamic templates with about 300 various functional modules.

The largest extranet project I worked on consisted of a little under 1000 dynamic templates and over 8000 functional modules, all utilizing 56 different available skins.

That is my kind of chaos.

--tk

 -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Billie Mandel" <Billie.Mandel at openwave.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:24 PM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Enterprise IA 95% un-sexy?
> 
> Wow - you folks are an amazing anthropological study.  Fascinating.
> Here's my attempt at engaging all these brilliant minds on a different,
> hopefully more substantive topic:  
> 
> It seems to me like many IAs think that enterprise work (intranets,
> enterprise software) is not as fun or "sexy" as working on
> consumer-facing sites/products. Do you agree?  If so, why?  I'm curious
> to hear your thoughts.
> 
> (Context: I'm an EIA kind of gal, am currently working on the
> supplemental materials for my poster session at the IA Summit, and
> advising my friend who has launched into Enterprise IA by taking my old
> job.)
> 
> Cheers, 
> - Billie
> 
> **********
> Billie Mandel
> Information Architect
> Openwave Systems Inc.
> billie.mandel at openwave.com
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