Thursday, July 10, 2008

HiPPO

Was watching a webinar yesterday and I came across this cool word - HiPPO.
The discussion was about changes to a website and the person was talking about how changes usually happen and his slide was as follows -

It looks good (or something on the lines)
HiPPO
Before & After

1 and 3 are easy. 1 talks about how you make a change because you think a change is good. 3 is the ideal way to do things. Do a before and after testing when making changes. HiPPO is actually common practice sometimes but never had such a 'catchy' name for it. It stands for Highest Paid Person in the Organisation. The speak was saying how changes can happen because the HiPPO says so or how you go ask the HiPPO what should be done and they give you an answer (cause mostly they are the most experienced or knowledgeable).

Hail HiPPO.

1 comment:

aMus said...

that's interesting!!!