On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 03:54, Alan Kent <alan.j.k...@saic.com> wrote: > He asked "what is security". He went on to talk about > the marines, army, air force, navy, etc - each would have a different > interpretation of "securing a building" - (invade and kill everyone, put a > fence around, lock the doors when you leave, or sign a new leasing > agreement). That part was mildly amusing, but made a good point - what do > people *really* mean when they say "security"?
The different understanding and interpretation of the same term is a big issue in IT business in general. I remember when DMS (Document Management System) was coming up. Everybody wanted to get a piece of the cake (in the sense of increasing sales). It happened that even printer manufacturers said they are doing DMS. Similar happens to quite every term that gets popular in IT. At the beginning until a term is being officially defined (in one or two variants) everything is unclear. Then there is a period of quite productive talk and then when everybody talks about it, you get a huge diversity of interpretations. I had people asking for DMS and after talking with them for about an hour I noticed that they need an archiving solution in reality. Maybe this is also a reason why the agile way got so popular - as customers often don't know either what they want it is the best to give them something to try and rely on the feedback to the existing system... -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
