Sunday, July 29, 2012

It is a Process Oriented World

The whole world is watching the Olympics.  All the action.  All the movement.  All the process in going higher, faster, farther toward the goal of winning in competition.

Is there any doubt that the Olympics is overwhelmingly and action process oriented event and we love the action?  The focus on the playing of the game?

There is also a focus at thoughtful and reflective times on the objects involved in the Olympics.  The games themselves, the people that play them the fields of play, the rules, etc. 

Most focus primarily on the action of the games, to varying degrees all recognize the role of the objects related to the action.  When the objects related to the Olympics become the primary focus of the presentation of the Olympics on TV some viewers go for a beer.  Some viewers are glad that those that went for a beer are not still there to comment on the waste of time by some idiot that interrupts the game.  They have some appreciation for the things involved in the game, not just the game itself.  Some really don't care about the play of the game nor do they even know the rules.  They just enjoy the objects involved in the game.

In a process oriented world those few that have an appreciation of the nature, and fundamental basis of the object structure model of the game as well as the functional performance of the model are having a wonderful total quality experience. 

Those that are having the wonderful total experience are smart enough not to tell the guy that went for a beer what he really missed while he was gone.  When he returns they  can tell him that he should be glad he left when he did so he did not have to listen to the idiot.  Let him think that his view is the only view (as long as he did not turn off the TV when he left the room or deprive everyone in the world of viewing what he missed while he was gone).

In a process oriented world the object modellers must present they object based model in process oriented terms.  The majority, games or business focus on process perspectives.  Give them the user view that they prefer.  Make the object model basis of the process transparent (OK, hide it!)  they would neither understand it, enjoy it, appreciate it and would perhaps even be threatened by it if they thought that some pointy head liberal was trying to change the way things are done.


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