Re:
Andrey Khavryuchenko <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.programming.extreme-customering |
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| Organization | KDS Software Group |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Stefan, "SS" == STEURS Stefan wrote: >> I would agree that the dev team SHARES the responsibility. The XP >> model, however, states clearly that the business decisions belong to >> the business people. SS> What if ITC is the business? The software you develop is the busines SS> you are able to do. In that situation the XP Customer is a person from marketing department, or the product leader (Mary and Tom, thanks for your excellent book, btw!) SS> Would it not be true to say in this case the software developers have SS> a large stake in the business outcome? SS> I think ITC is for many companies vital in a way that if you take the SS> software away the company "dies". SS> You cannot transfer the responsbility to the "customer" completely (and SS> perhaps not even partially) in those cases it would seem to me. Who does? [...] SS> In business decisions it seems that taking decisions on the "now" and the SS> "tomorrow" should not be separated. We must make sure that the future is SS> not jeopardised by the decisions we take now and make sure we are able to SS> evolve. We? Must? The best way I know to make sure that the Product will be able to evolve is by making it evolve _now_. SS> From that perspective, I don't see very well how the technology part SS> of the decision making process can be transferred to the customer and SS> I mean technology in a broad sense. Should it? Customer knows what, Developer knows how. Only teaming together they can achieve the result. SS> About adding value, I think we shouldn't be afraid to have a little SS> devaluation today to have more value tomorrow. Ooops.. How's that? While I can _guess_ the NPV of financial investment, I can hardly find a currency, let alone the NPV of design investment. The decision tree in the later case overwhelms me. -- Andrey V Khavryuchenko http://www.kds.com.ua/ Silver Bullet Software Solutions http://www.kds.com.ua/edu/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get 128 Bit SSL Encryption! http://us.click.yahoo.com/CBxunD/vN2EAA/xGHJAA/NhFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: extremecustomering-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/