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Need For Political Skills Was: Kool Aid and DFDing
Subject:Need For Political Skills Was: Kool Aid and DFDing From:Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:41:06 -0800 (PST)
--- TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
I've been knee deep in business process
reengineering for the past 2.5 years. DFDs are in fact
used, though minimally.
Because there are major political, social, and
security issues at risk, you need more than good
diagramming skills to navigate properly....
Tony Markos:
Your right, I can teach a 12 year old the Yourdon
technique in a couple of days. But applying DFDs -
that the trick!
Techcomm dood:
And I don't understand why in your example the
diagrammer would especially need good political
skills.
Tony Markos:
In your above comment you state: "Because there are
major political, social, and security issues at risk,
you need more than good diagramming skills to navigate
properly." So I don't understand why you don't
understand why a DFDr needs political skills in a
politcally risky environment.
Political skills such as glad handing, and generally
acting like used car salesman help to keep a DFDr on
gauard agains attack, and also helps put peoples fears
at ease. Thats why used car salesmen act the way the
do - to guard agains attack and to put peoples fears
at ease.
I also find that wearing plaid sports jackets and
smoking cigars helps in tech comm projects:-)
Tony Markos
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:19:14 -0800 (PST), Tony
> Markos
> <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> > Think of the case of Data Flow Diagrams being used
> for
> > a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project.
> If
> > you can imagine the fears that a BPR project
> typically
> > brings to entrenched workers, then you can imagine
> the
> > political skills necessary for the person charged
> with
> > creating the diagrams.
>
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