Has anyone else been given such functional design that you have to use to build a technical solution. You know what I mean;
“Impressive, great looking, but intelligence little they impart!”
The PM loves them, you have to sign them off (as good enough for at least the technical design), but you know you’ll have to end up doing the whole business analysis again – and in your own time.
The question is how do you educate the PM what to look for in these documents and what criteria do you use t measure whether they cover all aspects of the system that is being asked to be built!
I’ve recently had a similar experience again (I dealt with it) but I am interested in whether others suffered similar fate and how they’ve pushed back!!!
Qamar,
I’ve had such “specs” for both website and SharePoint. Had a manager who used to tell me that she wanted the website to “pop”… No clue what that meant. I pretty much ended up doing the best I could with the tools I had. Now I’m trying to create a new set of pages that the specs aren’t a whole lot better. Simple, clean… depends on who you ask what that really means.
I wish I had words of wisdom for you; but I don’t. What I’ve tried to do for both SharePoint and web design is find out what functionality they need. Who is the audience, what are they doing with the site, what business needs are they trying to solve? Then I start looking at the available tools and content. It’s far from a perfect system, but better than nothing at all.
