RE: [epf-dev] OpenUP Summary Graphic

["Scott W. Ambler" <swa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few thoughts
1. The gears are a bit distracting.  We should clean them up.
2. Each of the rows should produce something.  i.e. the daily cycle
results in a working build.  This would help to get the idea across that
working software is a major deliverable.

Scott

On Wed, October 10, 2007 10:00 pm, Nate Oster said:
> I'm a big fan of the graphic, so I'm obviously biased, but I do see the
> concern what I start thinking about it too much.  It's that pesky
> physics always intruding on our mental models! ;)
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> Anyway, if the notion is simply to make the gears more physically
> accurate, then I think they need teeth that are spaced properly.  The
> Work Items gear, for example, could have only one tooth, so that each
> completed work item advances the iteration by one "increment" toward
> completion of a shippable Build.
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> I DO like the "elongated tooth" on the Iteration gear.  Now if we could
> just get it to make sense.  I think it's just a matter of visual
> spacing.  There must be an engineer who can help us poor software people
> out.  :-)
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> Thanks,
>
> Nate Oster
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> Hi all
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> We have been speaking with various customers about EPF and OpenUP.
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> We have received feedback that the main OpenUP graphic (the cogs) is
> distracting because:
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> - it uses a mechanical metaphor to illustrate an integrated process, yet
> the mechanics do not mesh
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> - there is no way that the two cogs could actually mesh
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> - the elongated tooth on the iteration cog is odd
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> - these issues distract from the conceptual message being conveyed
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> I have attached a modified version - this is just an example of how the
> deficiencies in the graphic could be addressed - the graphic should be
> corrected properly by someone with better photoshop skills :)
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> Thoughts?
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> Ben
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