Amanda is right. We don't
have to imagine enterprise horror stories, we remember them.
Imagine a demonstration automated manufacturing facility in which
the chief architect did not talk to the 80 implementers,
except by memo, and every chief designer (9 component projects,
including the DBA and communications) thought he had sufficient
experience and common sense to ignore the others. (After all, we
are talking about engineers who think they are computer scientists
or artists.) I described the project design approach as "design for
dis-integration" -- my subsystem demo will work when others fail;
working with others is optional.
-Ed
On 12/7/2012 10:53 AM, Amanda Vizedom
wrote:
Sadly, John, some of us don't have to imagine this; we
can remember it!
... it, or close variants in which, say, these groups are not
in any single, identifiable department. And/or there isn't
enough information flow between the groups to ignore...
*shakes head vigorously, returns gladly to the present*
Amanda
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