[GLLUG] Stupid user story
Stanley C. Mortel
mortel at cyber-nos.com
Tue Jul 26 00:09:58 EDT 2011
From Tech Republic
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-stupid-user-stories-the-madness-persists/2605?tag=nl.e101
> One day, someone from another rural branch office called to tell me
> that nobody was able to access the application that was used
> throughout the facility. Since the problem affected everyone, I got in
> the car and drove to the facility as quickly as I could. When I got
> there, I discovered that the server was gone and that the server room
> had been completely ransacked.
>
> I approached the director of the facility with my findings, and she
> told me that she wanted a bigger office so she was commandeering the
> server room. The server had been moved to the janitor’s closet, right
> next to the mop sink.
>
> There were two reasons why the server wasn’t working. First, it was
> plugged into an outlet that was connected to the light switch. Every
> time someone turned out the closet lights, the server shut down.
> Second, there were no network cables in the janitor’s closet. The
> person who moved the server didn’t think that those “phone cords” were
> important.
>
There are a few other good ones too.
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