Evan's Thots

What I use it for:
- to use it to control music (the Remote App is great)
- to read Zinio magazines (I tried Zinio on a laptop and it sucks. It's fantastic on an iPad. I still love paper, but I am cheap and, ahem, eco-conscious.)
- to play some Angry Birds. Wheeee, meh. I want The Incredible Machine for this device.
- a bit of surfing and such, but sadly I can't (as in too cheap to pay for the games using the official app) get Hockey Night in Canada on it

What she uses it for:
- watching TED talks
- watching National Film Board
- toddler books and such
- Boggle
- FB
- books, news, etc

What the 28mth old likes it for:
- anything, he just wants to play with Mummy's iPad. Depending on the kid an iPad is a crazy kid magnet.

What I like
- it's an intensely personal device
- it's quick
- great battery life
- light weight
- very good screen
- the magnet cover thing is just cool
- great consuming device, average for creation

What I dislike
- it's an intensely personal device
- I kinda miss Flash, but not really
- it's useful like bucket of bent spokes when the internet goes down
- that's about it. It's an awesome device with a huge eco-system of applications
- I don't get much time on it when Rach is home!

I will post more thoughts on the intensely personal device aspect soon.

From http://www.bridging-the-gap.com/

I was reading through an article on how BA's fit into the BPM. But the real kicker of this article is the image they attached to the article (above). For an ex-developer it is really quite eye opening to see where the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) sits in relation to the business. One box very late in the methodology. A lot of work needs to be completed before a single line is committed to the repository.

Not everything is code and a big chunk of the early work never sees the spotlight.