by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take care how we state the requirements for a database. A spot on the floor often meets the requirements.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I attended a meeting recently wherein a senior official with a long, impressive title stood in front of a crowd of several hundred persons and spoke at length (three hours). A major part of the three-hour meeting was to explain to everyone the database system that was being developed. This system had been under development for about ten years and only needed a little more time before it was finished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pinnacle of the three-hour talk was a PowerPoint slide (do we still call them slides?) that showed the definition of this database. I considered the definition for a while\u2014I had nothing else to do at the time. I had the answer even though no one asked a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I can building the system in a minute. Actually, I have it already built,” I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, for once my brain kept my mouth shut. I didn’t say the above, but I thought it. We could store all the things stated in the PowerPoint on the floor. Lest you think I jest, I do not. Give me the things stated, and I will put them on the floor. Viola’. Finished!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I facilitated this exercise once at a conference of really smart persons. I stated database requirements. Really smart persons scribbled on large sheets of paper to design a system that would meet the requirements. I then showed them how the floor would also meet the requirements at a much lower cost and a much shorter schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take care how we define database requirements. The floor often suffices. by Dwayne Phillips Take care how we state the requirements for a database. A spot on the floor often meets the requirements. I attended a meeting recently wherein a senior official with a long, impressive title stood in front of a crowd of several hundred persons and spoke at length (three hours). A major part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,32,12,59],"tags":[240,154,135,179],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-communication","category-design","category-requirements","tag-analysis","tag-communication","tag-design","tag-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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