Superb slideshow from Deity level Analyst Declan Chellar, showing the advantage of pausing for a moment to gain clarity and perspective before proceeding with your project. Three very worthwhile minutes of your time.
The money-quote as I imagine it:
The money-quote as I imagine it:
"Oh! You want them to be alive when they get to the other side? Pity you never mentioned anything about that in your specs. Oh well ..."Plus, Declan draws all his own cartoons for his presentations. Clunk-click.
4 comments:
You are too generous, Rowan. There are analysis deities out there, but I am not one of them, as there is much for me to learn yet.
I am more an Analysis Titan, and one day I may challenge those deities and tear down their lofty palaces and replace them with my own!
Sorry, got a bit carried away wit the analogy there.
Very good visual presentation, though I found that having fixed on the cannon as the original solution it took me a few seconds to realise that what the customer was asking for a way of delivering someone to the other side.....(and of course, as you noted, preferably, alive.)
Nice restrained use of words too, and the whole delineation of customer, designer and analyst relations is vividly and economically conveyed, as, in fact, the value of stating EXACTLY what you, as the customer, want and need from a design team!
Probably there's a whole field involving accurate communication of a customer's needs and what s/he needs to tell the designer about his/her desired product - what it is, what it needs to do and how the user is affected by it.
Thank you for posting this.
Declan - "My name is Nobbymandias, Analyst of Analysts: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Your Royal Highness - Thank you for the comment and for having the coolest name of anyone who has ever commented here at the Oasis!
Princess Frosty, there is indeed such a field and it is called "Business Analysis".
It is what I do, but not who I am. ;-)
It took you a few seconds to realise what the customer really needed. Software developers often never fully understand what the customer really needed and only provide what the customer asked for.
Cheers!
Declan
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