Neither Mort Nor Elvis

re: Neither Mort Nor Elvis

Scott Bellware — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:42:13 GMT

Hi John,

Thanks for setting me straight on the origin of the personas. Had I written more responsibly, I suspect I should have attributed the personas to the effort of putting a product to market, rather than merely to marketing folks. More precisely then, my assertion is that the personas originated through people working with marketing concerns - demographic behavioral analysis for example - regardless of their title or primary job function.

Looking forward to greater improvements in Orcas. Although, I sure wish y'all would just stop and get Whidbey right, though. Orcas is a long time to wait for clean usability that we had in VS 2003 that went away with the introduction of a few new surprise features in VS 2005.

re: Neither Mort Nor Elvis

johnmont — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:48:51 GMT

What features in 2005 surprised you? I'm not sure we can do very much at this point, but what specific features do you most like and least like in 2005?

re: Neither Mort Nor Elvis

Scott Bellware — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:22:51 GMT

John,

That's a subject for a blog entry of it's own. When I get time, I'll put my least favorite features and usability-obstructing features of Visual Studio 2005 in a list.

It's disheartening that Microsoft doesn't have a value system like those found in agile development organizations that would allow for and enable design imperatives that provide for greater variability and adaptation.

I dream of a Visual Studio subjected to the software design exigences of Test-Driven Development

re: Neither Mort Nor Elvis

Richard Murillo — Thu, 04 May 2006 22:58:39 GMT

When reviewing the personae documentation I found that Scott is right that developers don't cleanly fit into one specific silo, but they do span multiple silos which are adjecent to one another. I know plenty of developers that are Mort with Elvis tendencies (I myself am an Elvis with Einstein tendencies).