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Article #618155Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:48
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:48
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On Sun, 2017-12-31, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2017-12-30, Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote: ... >> I worked in lots of industries. >> Knowledge of the business was NEVER an issue. >> The skill is in prying the needed information out >> of the users, not in knowing what they need beforehand. > > This assumes you can even talk to the users. If it is a > political requirement that everything passes through an > intermediary, things are inevitably going to get garbled. > At my first job I finally got a chance to talk directly to > the customer, and it was amazing how much we were able to > clear the air. I sometimes wonder how many projects are saved by people cutting through the red tape that way ... ... Although once you understand a user's real needs, you're still paid to tick off the official requirements. > Unfortunately, I had already handed in my notice, so there wasn't a > lot I could do with the knowledge I gained. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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