if you have idiots in core jobs then you get nonsense out of them.
I have written tenders that were entirely contained in the terse advertisement.
they took the form of 'I want a system to do this in this environment.'
we would provide them with a complete system map annotated with the relevant info. answer any and all questions honestly.
we shocked quite a few with the approach but the time they would have wasted trying to make sense of the waffle it turns out was devoted to sorting out the problems and achieving a system that worked.
of course if you are evaluating a tender you really need to be on top of the game.
I once used the accountant's style of tick the boxes to look at a tender that had been dumped in my lap. The industry best were Toshiba laptops but they didnt fare as well against a singapore made machine.
the singapore made machine turned out to be a disaster.
tickbox evaluations can't be used to better advantage than a sixth sense understanding.
we're all just humans and the logistics of organising large groups of humans can exceed the abilities of the best of us at times.
thankfully now I'm retired from all of that pressure.
the process will never be perfect. you just do the best you can.
Last edited by dubbleyew eight; 24th Sep 2013 at 01:16.