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The host application plays an active role in the worker’s intellectual and technical development. As the worker grows this attachment becomes increasingly hard to de-program (though there are generally accepted methods of doing this). Soon the worker will be unable to articulate her needs or expectations except by reference to her host. Mean time, those needs and expectations, thus articulated will contribute to the ongoing development of the application. This is a positive feedback loop of epic proportions.  
The host application plays an active role in the worker’s intellectual and technical development. As the worker grows this attachment becomes increasingly hard to de-program (though there are generally accepted methods of doing this). Soon the worker will be unable to articulate her needs or expectations except by reference to her host. Mean time, those needs and expectations, thus articulated will contribute to the ongoing development of the application. This is a positive feedback loop of epic proportions.  


Workers of the different persuasions (or tribes) will adapt their own host applications in extraordinary ways to do their bidding, unable to conceive of the idea that another Microsoft application might be more suitable. An Excel user will somehow contort a spreadsheet until it functions as a word processor, or a flow diagram generator. PowerPoint experts will communicate with a different vocabulary altogether, and will tend to see almost everything in the world in terms RAG statuses, cycle diagrammes and Gantt charts.
Workers of the different persuasions (or tribes) will adapt their own host applications in extraordinary ways to do their bidding, unable to conceive of the idea that another Microsoft application might be more suitable. An [[Microsoft Excel|Excel]] user will somehow contort a spreadsheet until it functions as a word processor, or a flow diagram generator. [[PowerPoint]] experts will communicate with a different vocabulary altogether, and will tend to see almost everything in the world in terms [[RAG status]]es, cycle diagrams and [[Gantt chart]]s.


Needless to say, interesting situations develop when hotly loyal tribal members then interact.
Needless to say, interesting situations develop when hotly loyal tribal members then interact.