RE: Butt-or-ego insulation query

Subject: RE: Butt-or-ego insulation query
From: John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:04:22 -0500


>1) Do I have a beer?
>Yes - get another one, because this one will be gone soon.
>No - for God's sake, man, get a beer!


Hi, Keith. Thanks.

The trick is to break it down into the smallest possible elements:

1) Do I have a beer?
Yes - Go to step 6
No - Go to step 2

2) Am I allowed to have one now?
Yes - Go to step 3
No - Got to step 8

3) Do I have the money for one?
Yes - Go to step 5
No - Go to step 4

4) Can I find a friend who will give me a beer?
Yes - Got to step 5
No - Go to step 8

5) Buy a beer and go to step 6

6) Drink the beer

7) Quit my job and go to step 3

8) Stay thirsty

The problem with this is that once you start, you can go deeper and deeper.

Example:

at step 5, do you want to add a decision on what kind of beer?
at step 7, do you want quitting your job to be the only option or is there a
decision choice.

Usually, business rules are more black and white, such as "If value <0, use
MA in column 2, if >=0, use SW in column 2"

You get the idea.




-----Original Message-----
From: kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com [mailto:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:41 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Butt-or-ego insulation query



John "the Pope of Technical Writing" Posada wrote:

> I'm a big fan of visual logic decision trees which I do in Visio to help
me
> determine how to write the instructions.
>
> 1) Do you have a token
> Yes - Initialize it and go to step 3
> No - Go to step 2
>

John, THAT is the coolest thing I've learned on this list in years.

Seriously.

THANK YOU!

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