{"id":373,"date":"2006-08-21T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T03:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/373"},"modified":"2006-08-22T04:53:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T09:53:52","slug":"its-all-starting-to-come-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/373","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all starting to come together&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a little bit at a time.<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday at TWU we had a session called Analysis in Context, which was (for me at least) exactly what I have been looking for in terms of lessons that I can wholeheartedly agree with. During the session, the &#8220;dirty secret of software development&#8221; was revealed to us. I&#8217;ll release the dirty secret for the whole wide interweb to hear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Software Development might not be about software at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can you believe it? I certainly can. Now, this is in no way meant to put down all those people who spend many of their waking hours writing code. I just mean to underscore the fact that software users don&#8217;t want or need to use software just for the sake of getting code to work&#8230;<strong>they just want to do their thing<\/strong>. People want help working on the things that they enjoy working on, which may or may not have anything to do with a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Writing good software requires good research. One really has to figure out the nature of the problem at hand. It&#8217;s not about what the client or user <em>wants<\/em>, it&#8217;s about what they <em>do<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a little bit at a time. So yesterday at TWU we had a session called Analysis in Context, which was (for me at least) exactly what I have been looking for in terms of lessons that I can wholeheartedly agree with. During the session, the &#8220;dirty secret of software development&#8221; was revealed to us. I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,2,10,12,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-rambling","category-bangalore-india-2006","category-hci-topic","category-rambling","category-technology","category-thoughtworks","category-thoughtworks-university"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}