{"id":4931,"date":"2003-04-14T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-14T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/between-the-lines-a-conversation-with-my-boss-2\/"},"modified":"2003-04-14T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-14T19:58:00","slug":"between-the-lines-a-conversation-with-my-boss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/between-the-lines-a-conversation-with-my-boss-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines: A Conversation with My Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boss: &#8220;I want you to build the best site in the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Great!  I&#8217;ve been wanting to change the way we do things. I can&#8217;t wait to get started!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &#8220;Whoa! People are going to have a hard time with change.  They won&#8217;t go for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Oh, we&#8217;ll present best practices, do baseline usability testing and careful analysis of the current site.  We&#8217;ll present the changes as benefits to the site&#8217;s visitors, and ultimately, to them.  They&#8217;ve been clamoring for change, after all. I don&#8217;t see why they&#8217;d have a problem with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &#8220;No, no.  None of that will matter to them.  Better go see what other system sites have done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;But, I thought we wanted to be the best site in the system?  None of the other sites have done any work based on best practices, usability issues or audience need analysis. I don&#8217;t understand how we&#8217;re supposed to innovate by copying the mistakes of others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &#8220;Look, you have to decide what battles you want to fight.  I don&#8217;t think people are ready for innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;How about we change the colors?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boss: &#8220;I&#8217;ll take it to management committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Great. I can&#8217;t wait to get started.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boss: &#8220;I want you to build the best site in the system.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Great! I&#8217;ve been wanting to change the way we do things. I can&#8217;t wait to get started!&#8221; Boss: &#8220;Whoa! People are going to have a hard time with change. They won&#8217;t go for it.&#8221; Me: &#8220;Oh, we&#8217;ll present best practices, do baseline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}