Thursday, February 4, 2010

The link between love and IT terminology

I was chatting with my good buddy "The Fly" and one of the topic is about the terminology used in Love context and IT and we discovered that there is actually a link between them.

So let us start off terminology, we have the following:

Love
-Looking for partner
-Courting
-Dating
-Marriage
-Starting a family (having kid)
-Having affairs after marriage

IT
-Pre-sales
-SIT (System integration testing, testing done by developer)
-UAT (User acceptance testing, testing done by end-user (customer))
-Cutover (The application will be deploy onto the live system)
-Change request/ User Request (enhancement made to the application after cutover)
-Project by phases

The link between them are as such:

For those looking for a partner, it is like pre-sales in IT. You go around looking for customers who will need to development new application.

Then you managed to close the deal and development work started. This is when a guy start courting a girl by trying all sort of romantic methods and talking "Want to be my steady boh...." . Similarly, development will try out different coding logic and hoping to settle with a best solution.

Once the girl go "steady" with a guy, there is when UAT starts. User will test the logic and ask how come like this and result is not acceptable sort of thingy. The girl likewise will start to pick out all the faulty parts in a guy in hope of changing them to her liking.......

Finally UAT passed, user agreed and signed off, you know "Guy:Will you marry me? Gal: I DOOOOOOO..........". There is when marriage happens, initial period will be critical period, the couple will be in honey-moon period. Likewise, developer will be on 110% alert to look out for any issue.

After sign-off, the preparation to cutover the application to live system take place. This is when the couple decided to have a kid.

As for having external affairs, well sometime in IT project, it is split up into various phases. Once phase 1 completed, we kicked off phase 2, whole new requirement and new code. Just like affair, a new partner with new excitement.....

Cheers

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