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Posting Date: July 12, 2002
 

Quality From Design (New Architect) -- "Simply put, there is no downside to designing before coding." (Comments: In light of the article I just wrote, I'm not sure that I agree with Alan Cooper.)

 

  

Reader Comments...
 

Can there be both? ...Are there situations where one or the other might be better suited, especially during a transition between 'extreme' and old school (stage-gate?) processes.

I'm assuming a situation which is not self contained, where you would be working with different clients.

Posted by: (the other)JS on July 13, 2002 07:31 AM

 

Summary: Alan needs clients.

Did I miss something, like actual information, rather than Alan just promoting his consulting company? Why is this newsworthy?

Posted by: Ron Zeno on July 13, 2002 09:35 AM

 

JS, you have a good point. I think that at least there are ideas that can be borrowed from the Cooper approach. I guess what bothers me about their methods is that they seem to relegate developers to a "coder" or "builder" status - just following orders with no room for creativity.

Maybe A.C. is talking more about boxed software rather than web-delivered software. I see a lot of his stuff goes online, though, so I give up on guessing and just stick to what works for me.

Posted by: Lydia on July 15, 2002 03:39 PM

 

Mr. Cooper seems to be using really old case studies over and over. Hasn't he got any new clients lately? ;)
(The cooper.com home page too hasn't changed much)

Posted by: MadMan on July 16, 2002 03:29 PM

 

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