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Jim Blair
says:
I always find it comical running across articles like this from obviously seasoned vets.
What I see... Is as a market persona trying to capitalize on functionality and features via vibrancy and hyper-wysiwyg gui interfaces sucking the processor power awa from what is needed most. + & -
As human beings we interact with the world very dynamically but through a straw... Our own obersevations. If complexity of systems has been the avoidance in the past.... Why is it STILL the norm?
It all boils down to this...
As I played racquetball as a teen, one of my friends came out with ten wrist bands, high whites, $2K worth of goggles, tape, techno gadgets, shoes etc. He looked ready to take on mcenroe, alzado and tyson at once...
He got clocked every time by everyone who stepped on the court!!! LOL Great Guy though!
It's not what it does but what they make you believe it does. Once it's sold... It's now your issue!!!!!!!!!
The paradox of training is that wall street or... US demand performance growth for our portfolios yet scrape the public company to sox, compliance, media and off shoring to 10th world countries expecting someone to understand.
Make it simple buuuuuuut.... Make it do everything that I need and all my customers, employees, partners, kids, friends, families and pets need it to do. And I can only pay $10 for it because.... My company needs to look like it has a 2000% NET GAAP performa that can only be achieved if we do not pay for anything but demand everything and convince our customers to pay the most for exactly what i can't pay for myself?????????????
By off-shoring all coding to adapt to backend com you get culturally unsound approaches that we as Americans demand.
WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE WANT... HOW CAN WE EXPECT A CULTURE WITH 10 TIMES MORE HISTORY AND REFINEMENT TO UNDERSTAND OUR MADNESS OF REASONING!!!!
Logic Gate: If 2 apples work together doing 100% of the work load ...will the main work load goal be achieved in half the time?
American Answer: What kind of apple is it?
Indian Answer: Thank you for your question but please help me understand why you are using apples to work towards a goal when you can use other types of fruit that are much stronger with the ability to generate more power.
Chinese Answer: What the...
German answer: Wow
Ms Teen America: Depends on the map we use
SO. The enterprise guys like oracle, ibm, sap and sometimes ms do infact invest resources and seriously consider the end users gui harmony but it actually starts with the user, the company and potential partner stepping to the plate and clicking on the little help button or just learn how to achieve what they are looking to do... If in fact they know.
software and hardware is hammer and a nail. you can do a million things with the combo but if you never choose to learn how to use the tools... it never really works the way it should.
How many times have you hit your thumb ?
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I completely agree, enterprise software is far to hard to use and one of the main reasons for this is because it doesn't work the way people want to.
If a programmer 4 levels removed from the end users needs builds an app then its up the trainers to bridge that gap by essentially trying to make the users think like the programmer.
This is another reason why software as it stands is dead and technologies that bring the users needs closer to the solution like www.geticeberg.com and web apps are starting to gain ground.