What is being produced is a tool to manage the activities that we as an organisation take part in. That could be done as a bestpoke app you down load to your phone, or a spread sheet, or as we have chosen, a website. It is a tool, nothing more nothing less.
For a distributed operation over a wide physical area, a website has been a convenient lingua franca for the last 25 years.
Yep. But ultimately it's a tool. Unfortunately a website just looks like a website to most people, so when people see that they can get a pretty looking website from square space for the price of a round of drinks, trying to tell them that our new site is going to cost them the same as a house in many parts of the country is a bloody hard sell.
J
That's something that's far too often forgotten, everything that "IT" does needs to fulfill a business need.
If you don't have a business need, there's no magic wand that will create one. (that's not necessarily a dig at AUK).
AUK has decided that it's business needs include various things on top of the standard ACP representations.
Oddly enough I believe there's people who have disagreed with that since day one.
On an earlier point, no matter what you pick as the technical stack there's always going to be lock in.
and oddly enough there's always going to be people evangelizing using another stack even long after the decision is made.
The stopping and asking for directions seems to be because people have disagreed with the destination since setting off on the journey.