Replying to LO30064 --
Alan Cotterell writes in LO30064:
> I suggest 'if you can't flow chart it', it's impossible to do.
I suggest an exercise: watch a dance troupe working out a new dance.
Flow charts are the oldest of the myriad of graphic notations invented and
evolved by software folks to try to visualize programs and processes.
They can be valuable, but remember the adage of the bloke with only a
hammer. As a practicing organizational learner, you should have a good
complement of tools in your kit, and know the strengths and limitations of
each.
(I remember a report, possibly apocryphal, of two workmen having an
earnest debate over whether a pipe wrench or a spanner was the better tool
to drive a screw into a concrete wall...)
Cheers,
--Don Dwiggins "The truth will make you free, d.l.dwiggins@computer.org but first it will make you miserable" -- Tom DeMarco
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