rafweverbergh

Thanks for this input.

I thought this might be ambitious, yes. Although at this time the system is (still) really quite simple.

Also, I thought: there must be a better way than saying: "So when user A logs in and merges records X and Y, user B will see the changes but not user C because he's not an admin".

But apparently I am mistaken?

A "briefing" is a term from advertising & PR agencies. It is a document in which the customer explains what their business context, goals and "value demand" is, at what budget etc etc.

Thanks for the link, I will look into it. I worked with use cases and user stories, but user stories will frequently have some gaps in them - and it's in those gaps that misunderstandings occur. I was hoping that there's a universal language to create bullet proof models.

Very good point, and very much validated by this story, which in my opinion borders on the silly, but isn't all that different from the breathless descriptions of the Hermès ateliers in Paris where artisans stitch 10,000 € leather bags:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3028039/whats-the-perfect-shade-o...

"However, I think this market is in the wrong direction of technology. In pure software, marginal cost of a new unit is zero, while of course for each new Louis Vuitton bag or each new Rolex, there’s costs for material and craftsmanship. But projecting forward into a world with ubiquitous, sophisticated 3D printing, the value of material and craftsmanship attenuate."

What luxury goods sell (art, handmade Rolls,...) is a story, not a product. The category that looks more likely to suffer are the luxury goods that are merely almost-luxury products - industrially manufactured but high priced (I'm thinking Nespresso here). What will hurt them is the increased transparency - the cold spotlight on their industrial value chain. They will be exposed as fakes.

But what will likely thrive is everything that has nothing to hide but everything to gain from this new transparency - everything that is ugly, earthy, hand made, at the expense of sweat and blood and occasionally the lunacy of the artist or artisan. That stuff will probably become astronomically expensive.

And then, someone will figure out how to produce that semi-industrially and we can start over again ;)

Small roundup here, with Twitter Q&A with pc:

http://www.whiteboardmag.com/stripes-first-acquisition-an-ac...

(self link)