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Day 10 gets me stumped!
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Quote from a discussion group: "users (read: catatonic spineless imbeciles who whine like they get paid for it)".
Sadly, very much true when it comes to developing web applications. Not a single soul to give ideas on how the interface should look before you make it, but every one with lot of whining on how what you made doesn’t fit with their mental picture of it and tons of "creative" ideas soon after. It is only with the web really - I’ve made Oracle applications with Oracle Forms and people were pretty happy always and straight away use it. The moment it is on the web, they want to put spinning cell phones here, purple and gold color there...
Another consistent source of annoyance is the group that does only "thinking" - motto, "we think, you do". They usually have architect or analyst or expert tagged somewhere in their title. Skills in implementation or estimating implementation is usually limited to "oh, we spent 4 months to make this 200 page Word document and a 20 slide Power Point presentation (with animations!). Since the whole project is for 4 months, you now can go ahead and do the implementation in 1 or 2 days. By the way, we’ll have some changes tomorrow too". The saddest part is that quite a few managers don’t understand that the final requirement is a system, not documents and presentations. Perhaps that is why we live in a world of vaporware and tupperware software.