If you have commented since June; please comment again and I’ll respond accordingly. If you can’t remember what you said, hopefully it wasn’t too important.

My apologies.

I never managed to vouch my opinion that the Business Analyst (BA) is in a key position regarding this as they can drive a change through the business that may not impact how a user sees the company and that the change may not have a technological solution. Having to focus on a user role or customer is a form of blinkers that is both good and bad depending on the scope of the project; not all customers are users and not all users are customers.

Another discussion was regarding the role of the architect and whether their primary role was to produce an artefact (the architecture) or was it to oversee the product lifecycle and make sure all work is aligned with the objective. I feel the role is more about an output and the process of design.

Naturally we define our role expectations based on our past experiences both positive and negative. Because of this each of us may have different opinions of who is best positioned to do what; or how we classify roles is fluid.

Everyone agreed that the tasks needed to be done we just don’t agree on whom. As long as the job is done and the expectation of who is doing what is sorted out early in the project, does it matter what the name of the role is?

I don’t think so.

In the world I see we all have e-book devices with wi-fi connections to our document stashes.

When I’m in a meeting and need to show that document; bam! There it is on my e-book device available for anyone to see. I can edit and annotate live. You want a copy? Let me send it to your e-book reader because none of us use paper any more.

If we lived in the world I see; how much money would we save on paper; ink and other non-sustainable environmental hazards?

I stopped printing paper a long time ago.

I’m giving a presentation on futures in software testing and I want to hand out challenge cards and road maps to help drive home the message after the fact. I would love it if those that cared could get the content direct from my e-book device.

I know we will get there but I’m repeatedly told tales of managers that need paper copies (single sided of course) of documents for review… so that they can be emailed to the eventual recipients.

In the world I see we have blank paper sitting there waiting. Creativity beckoning with the flick of a pen and the leap of faith associated with trying.

Right now we have words on our paper.

So without further stalling for time; here is yesterdays post which is about testing cross cutting concerns in HP Service Test. A useful process that could be applied to any structured automation tool that supports a programming language.

Also this post is mainly for those readers who use RSS and won’t get the subsequent update to the original post.

That string is: KCKNYFRKKDYQ

I’ll delete this post after it has all been said and done.

I hope your Sunday is relaxing.

Whoever designed it created these moderately interesting 2D displays of flowers. If you happened to be flying over the flowers then it would look ever so slightly more interesting. Most people walked around the displays as they didn’t own jetpacks.

This irked me more than it should have. Calculating the necessary matrix transformations to take a perspective image of a 3D scene and applying to a 2D plane has been around for a long time. We’ve been doing in it in real time in games for at least the mid 90’s when Quake came out. Here is a wiki page about projection.

If I was asked to create these displays I would have created some interesting scenes and images that fit the theme and then worked out the average height of a person and the direction I want the visitors to view the flowers from. With this information we can build a basic 3D model of the flowers that will create our image. Using the ability to grown flowers on time, in place and to a specific height we could create some really interesting displays that could be seen by everyone at ground level.

If we wanted to get clever we could create a panorama that as you walked along (strafed) the length of the display the scene unfolded or we could create a display that looked different from two, three or four different sides.

Until that happens, and it would be awesome if it did, here are some shots from the various displays and the next time you plan your own garden consider if you can get some images hidden away inside the garden beds.

He got knocked out about 8 positions from making his dollar back. This entire process took about 5 hours to complete. It just goes to show that you can still have good cheap fun these days.