{"id":356,"date":"2011-02-21T23:02:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:14:20","slug":"where-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Where to start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Developer: &#8220;Let&#8217;s start coding. We don&#8217;t have time for solution design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Designer: &#8220;No, we should design first. It&#8217;s not a waste of time. It will reduce rework.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Analyst: &#8220;Guys, please! How to start designing, if we don&#8217;t know what the problem to be solved is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tool-lover: &#8220;But how to diagnose the problem without a tool? Let&#8217;s choose the tool first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Architect: &#8220;Yes, but to choose a tool, we first need to make sense of the context, and only when we know where we are, can we have criteria for choosing the right tool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tool-lover: &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t that mean we need a sense-making tool? Again, as I told you, we need a tool first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Analyst: &#8220;No, this just means that we have first to analyse the context of the context. Let&#8217;s focus on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Developer: &#8220;20 lines of code ready while you are discussing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Designer: &#8220;That&#8217;s a waste of time. But you, developers, don&#8217;t have a sense of time anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Architect: &#8220;Time is an interesting thing. Good, you mentioned it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Analyst: &#8220;Is &#8216;time&#8217; the problem?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tool-lover: &#8220;We probably need a stopwatch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Architect: &#8220;What we rather need is to stop and watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Developer: &#8220;Let&#8217;s start coding. We don&#8217;t have time for solution design.&#8221; The Designer: &#8220;No, we should design first. It&#8217;s not a waste of time. It will reduce rework.&#8221; The Analyst: &#8220;Guys, please! How to start designing, if we don&#8217;t know what the problem to be solved is?&#8221; The Tool-lover: &#8220;But how to diagnose the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,3,7],"tags":[16,57],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-management","category-enterprise-architecture","category-project-management","tag-bpm","tag-enterprise-architecture"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j0ev-5K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}