OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

emergency-if message

[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]


Subject: RE: [emergency-msg] RE: [emergency-if] EDXL-AT & SituationalAwareness


I agreed in a separate reply to Sukumar, Patti,

However, I would like to apologize to the TC for implying that we 
might not need the SMEs that we do, in fact, rely on to bring us the 
problem areas in well-scoped and well-defined requirements.

Sorry,
Rex

At 1:19 PM -0500 3/19/07, Aymond, Patti wrote:
>Re: "As I see it, the practitioners/SMEs do know their area best - I do
>not believe that will change - we should recognize this and work with
>the practitioners to leverage their domain expertise."
>
>I am in complete agreement. We can't do what we do without the SMEs.
>O.K. maybe we could, but it wouldn't be any good and it would never be
>accepted by the stakeholder community.
>
>IMHO,
>
>Patti
>
>Patti Iles Aymond, PhD
>Senior Scientist, Research & Development
>Innovative Emergency Management, Inc.
>Managing Risk in a Complex World
>
>8555 United Plaza Blvd.   Suite 100
>Baton Rouge, LA 70809
>(225) 952-8228 (phone)
>(225) 952-8122 (fax)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sukumar Dwarkanath [mailto:sdwarkanath@comcare.org]
>Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:05 PM
>To: Timothy Grapes; Rex Brooks; tgrapes@evotechinc.com;
>emergency-msg@lists.oasis-open.org; emergency-if@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: [emergency-msg] RE: [emergency-if] EDXL-AT & Situational
>Awareness
>
>
>>>  EDXL-HAVE, in my opinion, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that
>accepting >>candidate specifications by groups of SMEs is almost always
>a mistake. SMEs rarely >>fully understand how broad, yet rigorous, the
>specification-writing process needs to be.
>
>>>  We have now had to PAINFULLY deal with the consequences of being
>persuaded that >>the SMEs know their area best and that means they are
>the best group to write a >>specification for that area, instead of
>carefully working through a rigorous requirements-writing process.
>
>
>Rex:
>
>I am not sure how you characterize a candidate specification but
>EDXL-HAVE was submitted in the format that the EM TC requested - as a
>requirements specification - and not as a candidate specification.
>
>As I see it, the practitioners/SMEs do know their area best - I do not
>believe that will change - we should recognize this and work with the
>practitioners to leverage their domain expertise.
>
>
>
>Sukumar
>
>
>
>
>IEM CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PLEASE READ OUR NOTICE:
>http://www.iem.com/e_mail_confidentiality_notice.html


-- 
Rex Brooks
President, CEO
Starbourne Communications Design
GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
Berkeley, CA 94702
Tel: 510-849-2309


[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]