RE: A technique to get on development's good side

["Kathleen" <keamac -at- cox -dot- net>]

And there's always the fact that some of us never learned to play nicely
or have lost the few social skills we once acquired (myself included:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng
 
Heck with features.  At a previous company I frequently found myself
in meetings where entire new products were proposed based on the
arguement that "nobody else is doing this, we'll be the first."  No time
whatsoever spent on the question of whether the reason nobody else
was working on such a product was that there was no profit to be 
made in developing it.  And during the dot-com there was actually a 
company (whose name escapes me at the moment) that advertised 
their corporate mission to be "developing cool stuff."

Gene Kim-Eng


"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> wrote in message news:...
> 
> John Posada wrote:
>>>I always have an issue with this, because most writers I talk to
>>>have no idea who their users are or what they should be advocating!
>>>A tech writer is not a user advocate any more than a developer is
>>>or a tester is or a marketeer is or a tech support rep is. 
>> 
>> 
>> I agree. If you were to be a fly on the wall of a list where
>> responsible developers discuss issues, I don't think you'll ever hear
>> "Screw the user...I want this feature in only because it is cool."
> 
> As one who wears his "usability" heart on his sleeve, I find I cannot 
> agree. In fact, I have heard statements by developers long the very 
> lines you suggest, not on developer lits, but in meetings and in 
> one-on-one conversations, heard from developers, from marketing, even 
> from project management. Frequently the sentiment is uttered not so
much 
> along the lines of "screw the user" but of "users are dumb."






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