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There's something about the story that, in its telling, feels a little leaky. The developer is getting the cabin in order, the salesperson is out bear-hunting,
by FuzzyDunlop 14y ago
There's something about the story that, in its telling, feels a little leaky.
The developer is getting the cabin in order, the salesperson is out bear-hunting, and we assume the bear is the potential client.
While the developer is still building, the salesperson is trying to find bears. He then lures the bears into a cabin which, from its description, was not built for the purpose of capturing bears.
So why was the salesperson hunting for bears when the more appropriate target might have been deer? Or other hunters needing a place to stay? Oh... he got bored before it was even finished, so doesn't know who the ideal client is.
By the same token, why was the developer unpacking everything nice and tidy when they were going bear hunting? Shouldn't he be at least partly aware of how the salesperson works, or what he's going to do? Did he know to prepare the cabin for a bear, or for themselves (or other hunters), or just make the assumption?
There's a clear problem with communication, that has led two people, aiming to do the same thing, down two very different paths. The trip was bound to fail right from the start.
- swombat 14y agoSo why was the salesperson hunting for bears when the more appropriate target might have been deer? Or other hunters needing a place to stay? Oh... he got bored before it was even finished, so doesn't know who the ideal client is. Looking at it from a "Lean startup" perspective, you could say that the salesperson bringing that bear in enabled the business to figure out that actually, it should be targeting deers instead. I think we're both pushing the metaphor beyond its useful limits though :-)
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoGood reply. We could likely refactor the story based on all manner of different startup and corporate perspectives. One might involve the developer pointing his bear-rifle at the salesperson out of sheer frustration! (Personal experience perspective.)
- seclorum 14y agoYeah, thats the point of the article: two people going bear-hunting, one better be prepared to lure and the other one better be prepared to kill and prep. Unless they're communicating about the best way to do it, its gonna be all bear-scratchy-furniture-developer-killing'y and not really much 'bear is dead, lets eat'.