So our profession has all kinds of terms to refer to the people who come up with requirements: analyst, use case writer, whatever. What about “ghostwriter”? In the book world, a ghostwriter is someone who takes another person’s ideas and puts them into prose that makes sense for the intended audience, perhaps even taking some liberties with content, sometimes even adding ideas that should have been there anyway. That’s really what someone translating requirements from a user to a developer needs to do.
April 26th, 2005
House remodel
So we came home from vacation and they’d removed two windows from Miles’ room and replaced them with new ones, put up all the sheetrock, installed all the new windows and a sliding door in the addition, and removed our old back door and reworked it’s opening to be more hallway-like. It was awesome, and impressively speedy, and so, so, cool to be seeing it taking shape.
Yesterday and today they tore off the 4 layers of old roof on our whole house and replaced it with new roof. In two days!