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The suggestion is that if key decision makers aren't identified, and
given the authority to make decisions, then we get design by
committee, groupthink and neverending discussions. That doesn't
preclude those individuals from seeking the input of any and all
stakeholders.
In Europe at least, a chartered engineer of any kind has the
authority to sign off specs, designs, drawings etc. because they are
trusted to have considered *all* the stakeholders, from designers to
customers to users. This is done because otherwise one or other party
does something that they think is best without considering whether
that's what the other stakeholders want (as well as for safety
reasons).
But I've never seen this approach taken in a software company, and
it's my hypothesis that this is maybe why the industry suffers from
problems such as high requirements churn, and delivering things the
customer doesn't want.
--- In [email protected], "Kent Beck" <kent@t...>
wrote:
> I don't. I want to encourage far more perspectives in the
discussion of
> "requirements", both as a means to more effective resource
allocation
> and as a political gesture to help software development bring power
to
> everyone touched by the project instead of concentrating it in the
hands
> of a technical elite.
>
> Kent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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> [mailto:sentto-8007113-391-1043687149-
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> rns.groups.yahoo.com] On Behalf Of timocock <t.ocock@i...>
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:06 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [SIP] Re: Design vs. Manufacturing
>
>
> In other engineering disciplines, the amount of change is kept at a
> manageable level by restricting sign off and requirements
discussions
> to the professional (or "chartered") engineers, and I think
software
> would certainly benefit from that
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