Timeline for How to ask 'why?' without implying I'm asking them to justify themselves?
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| Nov 17, 2021 at 10:09 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 1, 2021 at 15:05 | comment | added | tbrookside | @DKNguyen I agree. But that is actually the answer to OP's question. I think Milo's answer is the right one, although I would probably add even more detail to Milo's basic re-phrasing, depending on the exact content. | |
| Sep 1, 2021 at 15:00 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @tbrookside He should just mention that then. You, yourself, said the customer doesn't realize that so why ask a question that requires them to extrapolate all that stuff you know they don't know? | |
| Sep 1, 2021 at 5:16 | history | removed from network questions | Tinkeringbell♦ | ||
| Sep 1, 2021 at 1:44 | comment | added | tbrookside | @DKNguyen Since OP is an application developer, I think it's safe to assume that business users present him with requirements that duplicate existing partially-automated procedures, not realizing that if they supplied OP with a fuller account of their ultimate aim he could fully automate those procedures. I can't count the number of times users have asked me for data dumps so they could then spend hours doing further transformations of that data in Excel - because they just don't realize I could do those transformations for them directly. | |
| Sep 1, 2021 at 0:27 | comment | added | DKNguyen | I have trouble interpreting those any other way. If you don't want to ask why, then why do you ask at all? What is it that you are actually trying communicate in your response? It is not clear to me. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 22:32 | answer | added | Milo P | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 21:23 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 31, 2021 at 20:55 | answer | added | OldPadawan | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 19:55 | answer | added | Tinkeringbell♦ | timeline score: 20 | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 19:41 | history | edited | OldPadawan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2021 at 18:23 | comment | added | Sarov | @OldPadawan Fellow employees providing requirements for application development requests. As stated it's not just that specific situation where this would be useful, though. | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 15:06 | comment | added | OldPadawan | Hi Sarov. Are these users some customers of yours? What professional relationship between you? Is your job to give them raw data (or whatever they need) and move on or do you have a different role? | |
| Aug 31, 2021 at 13:23 | history | asked | Sarov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |