RE: yes-no diagrams

Subject: RE: yes-no diagrams
From: John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:03:32 -0500


I was at this gig for no more than 2 weeks when I used a tree to define how
one of my applications received data from SAP.

I showed it to my boss...he looks at it for no more than 1 minutes, smiles,
and walks away with it.

He comes back with it that afternoon and tells me that it exposed a flaw in
the business logic for how some data was accounted for and that the result
was a change to a department's bottom line.

All because a value was implemented as <0 and should have been <=0

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Hower [mailto:hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:47 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: yes-no diagrams

I just got done working on some decision tree diagrams for troubleshooting.
it really does expose things I hadn't thought about before. It forces you to
think in a different way. It was actually kind of fun gathering the
information for the diagrams too. I think my questioning, and demanding that
every node terminate in some way, got the programmers thinking about stuff
they hadn't thought about before either. (Although I could be wrong on that
one)


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