Looking for a Cartoon

andy04

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I am looking for a cartoon titled "Requirements gone bad". It was a sequence of diagrams showing how a business's requirements were misinterpreted by the IT department. The diagrams showed an example for a Swing. It meant that - all the business wanted was a big tire hanging on the branch of a tree and then showed that what IT promised was a nice beautiful swing, billed for a roller coaster, design was a swing hanging between two trees in a impossible manner and stuff like that...
Does anyone have it... Just want to hang it in my new cubical...
 

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I have it on my home PC but not here. If you can't find it by 4PM pacific, PM me and I'll send it to you.

Edit: I'm 99% sure I have it, but I haven't checked in a while.
 
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I found a larger version, but when I try to view it I get a message saying access is forbidden. I think the site I found it on has removed it since Google scanned them.
 

MrManly

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I have a printout of that cartoon in my cube, but I can't find the file I printed. Mine was titled: "Why IT Projects Fail".

It's printed full size on about 1/2 sheet of paper. The text is easily readable.

-MrManly
 

andy04

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I found a place where you can find the individual images. They are pretty good size !

http://www.rizzetto.com/images/scaryideas/how_the_customer_explained_it.jpg

just replace the url with the corresponding titles!!

How_the_project_leader_understood_it.jpg
How_the_programmer_wrote_it.jpg
How_the_project_was_documented.jpg
What_operations_installed.jpg
How_the_customer_was_billed.jpg
What_the_customer_really_needed.jpg
how_the_analyst_designed_it.jpg
how_the_business_consultant_described_it.jpg
how_it_was_supported.jpg
 

GooeyGUI

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My wife who works in IMD (Information Management Division), as a Sr. Systems Analyst, thought this was hilarious. It's a funny cartoon in any case though.

:D