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Huey, Dewey and GUI

By | August 7, 2010, 6:30pm PDT

Summary: In this week’s Geek & Poke, Oliver Widder points to some deficiencies in the enterprise software development process:

In this week’s Geek & Poke, Oliver Widder points to some deficiencies in the enterprise software development process:

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Jeff Dickey 10th Aug 2010
@jorwell Continuing your interview... "Do you have any idea how to do things more efficiently or effectively in any way? No? You're hired; expect to make division manager within 3 years!"

I live in a city now that is easily the least innovative I have ever seen anywhere, including the USSR. The facts that its business and government run apparently exclusively less-than-current Microsoft operating systems, and that it has the most highly paid high-level Government officials and corporate execs, might be predictable outcomes of that but are officially in no way related.
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Enterprise Architect job requirements
jorwell 7th Aug 2010
Visio and PowerPoint skills are a must.

We are particularly seeking people with integration experience; can embed Visio diagrams in PowerPoint presentations.

Cross platform skills are an advantage; able to run PowerPoint on both Windows and Mac.

Some of our top designers can turn a simple scalar function with one argument into a diagram containing 20 boxes and 40 arrows. Have you got this kind of commitment to pointless complexity? You could be the person we are looking for.
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You do know that Powerpoint is a miss-communication tool??
wackoae 8th Aug 2010
Sure, it can sometimes provide good info .... when the user does not limit the info to just bullet points.

But it is more than known that Powerpoint slides are notorious for hiding real information from others, by limiting the information to poorly written bullets. In fact, Powerpoint was IMPLICITLY NAMED as a factor in the miss-communication that led to the death of the crew of the space shuttle Columbia.

So having good Powerpoint skills is not a trade you should be looking at. What you need is people who can communicate ideas and information well no matter what medium is used within your company or business.
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PowerPoint
jorwell 9th Aug 2010
@wackoae

But there is so much new enterprise software that only runs stably on the PowerPoint platform, it's a must have skill!

And anyway, management by bullet point can be surprisingly effective at getting things done:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
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Jeff Dickey 10th Aug 2010
@jorwell Continuing your interview... "Do you have any idea how to do things more efficiently or effectively in any way? No? You're hired; expect to make division manager within 3 years!"

I live in a city now that is easily the least innovative I have ever seen anywhere, including the USSR. The facts that its business and government run apparently exclusively less-than-current Microsoft operating systems, and that it has the most highly paid high-level Government officials and corporate execs, might be predictable outcomes of that but are officially in no way related.

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