Re: Newbie - what's all this BCNF stuff anyway?

From: David Cressey <david_at_dcressey.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:49:39 GMT
Message-ID: <D1wE9.292$0I3.31105@petpeeve.ziplink.net>

> That's a problem with the front-end design process --
> differentiating between what the client wants and what
> he needs.
>
> If you give them what they want, even though it's what
> they ask for, you still take the blame if it's not what
> they need.

This reminds me of an old thing called "the user's lament". It was a long riff, almost like "Alice's Restaurant", where the refrain came around every now and then, only different, each time:

Refrain 1:  "It's not what I said"
Refrain 2:  "It's not what I meant"
Refrain 3:  "It's not what I want"
Refrain 4:  "It's not what I need"

Now that I write this, I realize it should have been called "the designer's lament". Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 14:49:39 CST