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> On Jun 16, 2022, at 1:46 PM, charles meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> HI Morgan,
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> We can't use Google forms at our library.
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> I'm OK using Excel but trying to avoid making mistakes at the beginning in set up.
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> Have you ever completed a project and then people chime in that you should have done it this other way?

My normal response is “okay, I’ll let you do it next time”, and they usually shut up.


> I'd like to better understand those learning moments now than later as a Monday morning quarterback?

I find it’s usually insecure people who want to make sure they say something during meetings, so people remember they exist, but their taking usually wastes everyone’s time rather than actually helping.

There’s a time for requirements analysis on a project, and after its been implemented isn’t it.  If there’s something so fundamentally wrong with whatever you implement that it’s not going to work, then obviously they should implement the correct version, because I don’t know what I’m doing.

(Have I ever mentioned that I used to work with Phd physicists?  This xkcd is pretty spot on: https://xkcd.com/793/ ; they also are perfectly okay with making you spend two or more weeks coding around a problem because they’re not willing to add another field to their database so you can easily flag which records are journaled entries and shouldn’t be processed)

> I'm deliberately creating 2 separate spreadsheets - one for Adults and one for Teens because I don't trust Excel to sort Teens from Adults in the same
> Excel file.

You can add a second sheet within the same file, if you wish.

-Joe