Contact and interview two or three systems analysts, in different organizations if possible, regarding this chapter's subtopic on communication building blocks.

a. Describe the nature of each analyst's company or organization, its mission, and current business issues or needs

b. How important does each of the system analysts consider communications with system users versus system builders, that is, which is more important and why?

c. Do they find it more difficult to communicate with the system users or with the system builders? Why?

d. If they were CIOs for a day, what would each of them change about the way their designers communicate with system users and builders?

e. Which viewpoints do you agree with, or do you have a totally different one than the people you interviewed? Justify your answer.