On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 18:32 +0000, Scott van Looy wrote: > Today William Case did spake thusly: > > > Anne, if I may take the liberty of whole heartedly agreeing with you > > > > Les's proposal sounds like a MicroSoft proposal. > > In an ideal world, you'd create an application dummy. Get prospective > users to use it in various scenarios (UAT). Watch them. Take that feedback > on board, develop a sensible set of defaults, then develop a way (user > prefs or something) to override all those defaults. Then do another UAT > cycle, clean up any issues discovered, and that's it. Voila, best of > both worlds. > > This is how software *should* be developed. Programmers all too frequently > forget that they are servicing the user, not telling them what to do. > Hi, Scott, Maybe I've been lucky, but all the software projects I have been involved in worked quite similar too this. I have never just set out to code something just hoping someone would like and and use it. I can't speak for others. How do you think all this stuff gets created? Regards, Les H
