[eluser]Kyle Johnson[/eluser]
The people I get the most help from are the end users. I flew to Portland to meet with a helpdesk of a company that would be using a portion of the portal and got a lot of good feedback from them. That has guided my programming for a while now. I am thinking I should just skip management. HAHA!
My manager explains to the upper management that I need more information to get what I'm doing done, but even he has zero programming background, so he isn't able to accurately convey what I need.
I wish I knew the "Do not code before communication flow" guideline when the project started. This is my first adventure into writing an entire application, so everything is new to me. I'm going with what I think I need, but I know I'm missing a lot, since I haven't had any former experience with it.
In the future, I will try to explain to them much more firmly what I need from them. I can't work with one sentence descriptions of the data needed.