RE: Should users have a say in the software development Re: Shouldusers have a say in the software development

>Of course, if it weren't for "those darned users" "needs" our jobs
would
>not be needed, either   :-)

Don't confuse a user's needs with the user's ability/right to be
involved in the design and construction of a solution to those needs. 

If not for sick patients doctors would be out of a job, but we go to a
doctor and say "I fell out of a tree and my arm hurts." He determines
that it is broken, what the right way to fix it is (cast, sling,
surgery) and he implements the solution. We don't go to the doctor and
say "I fell out of a tree, I need you to put on a 1/2 length fiberglass
cast with pins supporting the bilateral bone plate and I need 250mg of
Vicoden for pain." 

He's the professional, we let him do his job. Somewhere along the line
users have forgotten (we've allowed them to forget) that we actually get
paid because we know what we're talking about. We're the professional,
let us do our job.

-Walden

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Walden H Leverich III
Tech Software
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Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)