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On 9/06/10 10:40 AM, "P Kishor" <<a href="punk.kish@gmail.com">punk.kish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>> The last thing that anyone wants is for a major player to implement a poor<BR>
> quality application and have problems with the bad publicity that would<BR>
> follow.<BR>
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> We cannot expect that knowledgeable OS Spatial people will always be doing<BR>
> product selection. This is often a function assigned to an IT group through<BR>
> Enterprise IT Governance processes. The people doing the selection, may or<BR>
> may not have appropriate skills and experience.<BR>
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Due diligence, caveat emptor and all. If the people doing selection<BR>
don't have appropriate skills and experience, then those people should<BR>
be replaced with people who have the appropriate skills and experience<BR>
to do the selection. Makes me shudder to think that not only might we<BR>
have inexperienced and inappropriate people at the helm, we are<BR>
willing to accept them there instead of changing them.<BR>
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The point that I was making is that Enterprise IT Governance processes often remove the product selection from the people specifying the Business Requirements. This is often an IT function. Spatial requirements are often seen as a Business function.<BR>
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In an ideal world, organisations would have people with appropriate IT, Spatial, OGC and OS Spatial skills making the recommendations.<BR>
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In the real world, we cannot expect that this will actually happen.<BR>
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Have you tried recruiting for people with appropriate IT, Spatial, OGC and OS Spatial skills lately (and at government wages...)?<BR>
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Bruce<BR>
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