Shared Understanding

The comic strip below helps one understand the need for a shared set of goals and objectives for a system and the consequences for not agreeing on such shared goals and objectives.  Effective communication between stakeholder and by stakeholders to those creating the system is critically important.  Testing is a tools for verifying agreement and determining if a system is adequate to meet specified goals and objectives.


For contrast, consider this project where everyone agrees with the project. If agreement is achieved it is relatively easier to move a project from one state of agreement to some other state of agreement.


Meaning is bridge between information and knowledge. Data does not have meaning, it has the potential to have meaning. Intersubjectivity is a shared cognitive understanding and mutual knowledge that people have when they communicate information effectively.

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