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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Argument: Software design is important, data designis not
 "This shouldn't have been that hard of an application. If the time had been spent up front in good data design and moving towards a resource centric rather than message centric approach, the project would have been functional in six months and fully operational in ten. So yes, I think data design is important." Thanks Kurt. That clarifies it. a) Work avoidance. Once a project is won all of the contractors responsible for the new parts of the systems attempt to simplify their requirements and the contractors responsible for the existing systems to be integrated avoid changes to existing systems that are "working". b) The winning prime is responsible for satisfying a customer who is in requirements discovery mode. Everything that sounds like a good idea is considered but once again, to meet schedule, they are "simplifying requirements". c) Uber-language design (what data driven systems need) is messy when done by consensus with a largish number of equally potent contributors. AKA, why benevolent dictators tend to emerge past the first flush of kumbayah. Over the decades of markup standards and implementation work, most of us can testify how difficult it is to create languages by committee, even the easy ones a good designed can do in a night over a beer. So when the programmers tell the managers "don't worry about it, we'll translate, transform, toss away in code" and all they have to write back to the customer in discovery mode is "don't worry about it; Java does that" without explaining Java Does Nothing Until Programmed, the inexperienced sign off and then wait for the Next In Process Review meeting. The *simple* phrase that covers a multitude of the arguments in this thread is: Experience matters. No free lunch. One admonition: if you have a very expensive and critical program to execute, don't farm it out across the border. Keep it in the next room where you can watch it. Love from afar is for fools and cuckolds. len  [Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
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