How people screw up on their product demos

Re:How people screw up on their product demos by pestaa on Thursday September 26, 2013 @04:04AM (#6449477)

I disagree with #9. Maybe Bill was on vacation, broke his arm and stayed in hospital for a full month. Of course he's underperforming.

The data is there for you to query. There should be pointers to begin with, but the software should never make business decisions for you.

If the business analyst needs an hour to find the data, then the interface is too complicated, or the analyst did not learn how to use the software in the first place.

Please don't make me write software that can replace your business analyst.

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Re:How people screw up on their product demos by obeleask on Thursday September 26, 2013 @09:47AM (#6450657)

There are many ways to get around this issue. Alerts/notifications based on thresholds being exceeded is one. Another is to start with a dashboard that highlights the major issues for you to look at. Another is to have a marker/icon next to any figure that needs your attention (ala Stephen Few style).

There is nothing wrong with investigative analytics. I'm not saying slice and dice is a bad thing - just there are much better ways to open your BI demo.

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Re:How people screw up on their product demos by floobynewb on Thursday September 26, 2013 @04:55AM (#6449594)

I was thinking along the same lines. What he is asking for is quite close to general AI!

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