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RE: The coming predominance of user experienceandtechnicalcommunications
Subject:RE: The coming predominance of user experienceandtechnicalcommunications From:"Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com> To:"'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:58:11 +0100
Sorry, let me just re-state that.
"Many of the developers and QA engineers I've worked with..."
Where "Many" is a percentage higher than 75%. In other words, "most".
In yet more words "unlikely to do that over 90% of the time" is your
experience, and totally contradicts mine.
So we need someone else to chime in here, which way will it swing?
Gordon
P.S. I'm not discounting the fact that I may just be blessed ;-)
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Subject: RE: The coming predominance of user
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Back in reality, they're unlikely to do that over 90% of the time, so I
think the usage was correct (sorry: I am a realist).
> But don't use the word pigeonholed, please. Many of the developers and
> QA engineers I've worked with are perfectly capable of understanding
> the business reasons behind why we are doing X and not Y, and why X is
> being done in a particular way.
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