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re: The BMW Analogy : Why must there be a UAT?

rape stories — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:07:31 GMT

Your article is prety nice. It's a pity that i didn't see it more later.

re: The BMW Analogy : Why must there be a UAT?

Peter Ritchie — Tue, 23 May 2006 19:01:41 GMT

A more apt analogy would be requesting Boyd Coddington build you a car, based upon your specs. With an "off-the-shelf" car you just assume that the specs listed in the shiny pamphlets are correct and that the hundreds of other customers of the same car provide a level of acceptence where you don't have to check it matches the specs upon delivery. With a custom car you're going to scrutinize it a bit more to make sure you got what you asked for.

re: The BMW Analogy : Why must there be a UAT?

Simon — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:13:41 GMT

I agree with Arnon's comments; UAT is more about "does this do what I asked for?" rather than "does this work?". It's basically a step taken because we know it is difficult to accurately and flawlessly understand a user's requirements, rather than to write high quality systems.

Still, an interesting analogy! Driving a GM car, I think UAT might not be such a bad idea for them :-)

re: The BMW Analogy : Why must there be a UAT?

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz — Mon, 22 May 2006 08:09:54 GMT

Yes we can - these are called shrinked wrapped programs (Office, Acrobat, Oblivion whatever)
When we are taking about solutions the BMW analogy doesn't hold - it is more like buying a suit from a high-profile tailor - you need measurments up-front and then you come for a fitting before the final suit is handed to you

Arnon

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Rohan Thomas — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:16:21 GMT

Instead of duplicating the post, I'll just put down the link :)
http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/04/07/89639.aspx...

Something new about MSF - Microsoft Solution Framework...

Rexiology... — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:12:10 GMT

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Something new about MSF - Microsoft Solution Framework...

Rexiology::Work — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:07:12 GMT

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Microsoft had released new MSF templates at 2006/03/17, which "are" version...

re: Who needs Architecture?

Matthew — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:54:28 GMT

I would say no for small applications. We have many successful small applications that serve their purpose very well and guy who wrote them (myself) did not know there was any such thing as a software architect at the time.

For larger projects definetly yes. As our systems have grown over the years we suffer from a lack of good archtecture.

Who needs an Architect?

Some Things Architectural — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:18:34 GMT

In my previous post, I was talking about who needs Architecture. Here is a fine article by Martin Fowler...