Miscommunication in a project, illustration

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Posted in » Cartoons, General - by Ades on September 19th, 2007

If you are a web designer or a programmer I am sure this thing happens a lot. Usually they are the victims of the miscommunication, they are the ones that make hundreds of revisions to the project because of miscommunication.

When I used to work as a Web Designer in my previous job (2 years back), usually company would make a mistake of not sending any web designer to the project meetings. They would send all the non-IT staff, like sales manager, marketing manager, COO…etc.

Usually in these meetings many things would be discussed about the project’s design (look & feel), and project specifications. These meetings are very important for the web designer to get the feeling of what the customer wants. Because, if you do not hear it from customer’s mouth, someone else would explain it differently and you would be designing a website for this imaginary customer. And the end result would be, of course, something that is not what the customer wanted.

So moral of the story? Make sure the person responsible for the project development be in the meeting, especially in the first meetings where the project specifications are drawn.

Click here to see the whole cartoon (10 images) My favorite is “How the programmer wrote it” The guy did some hell of a programming there ;) How about you? Which one do you like?

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3 Responses to “Miscommunication in a project, illustration”

  1. By Fantastic Forrest on Mar 27, 2009

    Great post. I know I’ve seen something very similar, but it never gets old. I think the version I’ve seen begins with “how the customer described it” as identical with “what the customer wanted,” which makes everyone else out to be a bonehead. In fact, so much miscommunication happens because NO ONE can articulate something clearly.

    I’m curious who did the cartoon. You? If so, may I have permission to use this on a couple of my blogs, as long as I attribute it to you?

    Thanks!

  2. By Ades on Mar 29, 2009

    no i didn’t draw the cartoon, please follow the link for original link.

  3. By Online College on Aug 25, 2009

    Love the last block, “what the customer really needed” a Tire swing classic!


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