{"id":1241,"date":"2009-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/08\/04\/1179\/"},"modified":"2009-08-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:00:00","slug":"1179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/08\/04\/1179\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking beyond the RFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kas Thomas at CMS Watch \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmswatch.com\/Trends\/1657-Beyond-the-RFP\">Thinking beyond the RFP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Don&#8217;t ask &#8222;How will you be able to handle XYZ?&#8220; unless you&#8217;re willing to tolerate answers like &#8222;Our standard user interface allows a user to do this&#8220; or &#8222;our application programming interface allows the product to be easily extended so as to accomplish this.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, write a user narrative or concrete scenario for every one of your key requirements, and demand a narrative answer in response. For example, rather than ask whether a product natively supports delegation of authority in workflows, compose a concrete user narrative.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kas Thomas at CMS Watch \u2013 Thinking beyond the RFP: &#8222;Don&#8217;t ask &#8222;How will you be able to handle XYZ?&#8220; unless you&#8217;re willing to tolerate answers like &#8222;Our standard user interface allows a user to do this&#8220; or &#8222;our application programming interface allows the product to be easily extended so as to accomplish this.&#8220; Instead, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}