From: Andrew Gabb (agabb@tpgi.com.au)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 00:15:07 EST
Ilia Bider wrote:
> As for now, I do not know any other way of teaching the "art of analysis"
> than the one used by craftsmen when an underling just starts by helping his
> master. I do not expect that the universities could produce ready-made
> system/business analysts or requirement engineers. What I do expect,
> though, is that the graduates in these disciplines know "what and how much
> they do not know", and "dangers" should be counted to this issue. From my
> practice, this is not the case, the graduates tend to think they know quite
> enough to do analysis, requirements engineering, etc. right away.
Hell, they're human, aren't they? And that apparently qualifies almost anyone to design GUIs!!
Here we completely agree. As the saying goes, anyone who gets this far into the swamp without seeing any alligators deserves to get eaten. (I used this in my SwE seminar to introduce the section on Risk.)
However, I've also noted that teaching risk awareness (let alone risk management) is also very difficult, because much of it is really teaching experience. Possible, but rather slow and expensive. Do you have any methods to share with us to ram some of this stuff home?
In my seminar, I used mainly 'war stories' - experiences of my own and others, but of course conducting a seminar is a bit like preaching to the converted, and almost everyone had at least a modicum of experience and battle scars to show for it, so they could relate better to the situations.
Finally, I should add that the youth of today (and others) have a big advantage that we didn't have in the good old days - forums like this. The benefits really can't be overrated in my opinion, because you get both the benefits of a wide range of experiences in different domains and frank exchanges from those who've not only been there, done that, but have thought deeply about it afterwards.
Andrew
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