The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday

Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by IshKebab on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:28AM (#16159358)

Enterprise software is chosen by a manager who is told the feature list, but never uses the software. Usability is never considered because the manager never uses the software, and it's not really possible to evaluate usability on paper (they may say "this is really usable" and an application can still be really bad; if they say "it has feature X" and doesn't then you can sue them for breach of contract).

Consumer software is chosen by people that actually use the software. They can see that it is shit, give it bad reviews etc.

I used to work at a very large company who use Teamcity (think git for CAD), which was the worst POS I have ever used. A 90s Java mess that was so slow you could watch it redrawing GUI controls in slow motion. Everybody that used it hated it. At least some of the higher ups liked it, but they didn't actually have to use it.

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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by user5994461 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:29PM (#16160664)

Teamcity is the best CI that's available, far ahead of Jenkins.

The issue with these tools is the company that is too shit to run them. Put the smallest box they could salvage that's already running a hundred apps. Put the storage on a NAS in another datacenter because there was no more local disk space.

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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by IshKebab on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:12AM (#16177108)

Sorry I meant Teamcentre. Teamcity is great!

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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by CaptSpify on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:46AM (#16159529)

I think this is the key here. Why do we keep trusting the one person who never uses the actual product to decide which product everyone should use?

I wish we could have a sane conversation about how UI's should be customizeable for the end user

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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by naravara on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @12:46PM (#16160175)

>I wish we could have a sane conversation about how UI's should be customizeable for the end user

Depends a lot on context and the type of application, but a lot of end users get confused about where the line is between UI/UX and backend functionality.

A lot of things that might seem to be UI issues might actually have implications for things like resource consumption and application stability. It's a tough balance to strike.

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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by CaptSpify on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:07PM (#16162604)

Oh yeah, Im not saying it's easy, just that it leads to better workflows and efficiencies for end-users.

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