[ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?

[Jeff Lightner]

Exactly!

There is a funny Dilbert in which his PHB asks if he can brief the
company President in 5 minutes on his PowerPoint presentation.  Dilbert
replies that no, it is not possible and in fact attempting to make a
decisions with so little input would lead to disastrous choices.  The
PHB then responds "what can you do in 4 1/2 minutes?"

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Kinney
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 8:25 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> Despite those stencils looking very clever-seeming and all, I find
they
> make for lousy diagrams.  Diagrams/blueprints/schematics are supposed
to
> be abstractions that show more than just a physical arrangement.  With
> the rectangle (or whatever) filled in with non-germane information
> (e.g., where on the front panel of a server the CD drive is :) ), I
> can't use the inside of the rectangle to convey germane information.
>
>

Ah! But you are not a pointy-haired boss, are you? Bear in mind that
PHB doesn't actually  _read_ the diagram. They just look at the
_pictures_and match them to the sale brochure pictures to make sure
they are planning on a hardware setup the nice salesman is able to
provide.

Yes. The explicit part drawings are for the technically illiterate.
All of which really begs the question, "Why are they needing this
information in the first place if they don't know what it is and they
have no impetus to learn it?".
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James P. Kinney III
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