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My wife just passed this along to me. The German Police have a new siren (an irritating one at that). You can find it on YouTube.

 

But I am an Analyst/Programmer. So I asked myself "How do you even go about doing that?" I mean if any of you have project management experience, just consider it. How does it even start? A regular meeting and no new issues so some suites are having coffee and chatting and one suggests new sirens for the police?

 

Then how would you budget it? Hire a project lead and a team for him? Who do you get to make the noises? "The Ministry of Irritating Noises" Monty Python Style? Meeting to discuss base sounds over treble sounds? Volume minimums and maximums? Quick, slow, or repeating sounds? Think of writing the paperwork asking for funding from the politicians you have to convince. How do you decide what the cost will be? Do you put it up for bids commercially? What do you decide the "Lifespan" of this new siren would be before it needs to replaced?

 

What kind of timeline would you need? How long? What benchmarks would you set? How about project management diagrams with stick figure users etc.

 

When you have it who approves it for testing, who tests it? Is it even a career description? "Certified Siren Tester"? Then who is responsible for approving it for use with the police?

 

Maybe it is just me, but I find the idea of project management for this hilarious, where did the idea even come from?

 

:ph34r: ...maybe it would be a challenge for Stefan to do a video tutorial on project management using this scenario... *evil snicker*  :ph34r:

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Well, I would first determine the effectiveness of the current siren. How you would do this? I guess it could be determined via long term stats (how many police vehicles have accidently smashed into other cars who did not hear the siren in x number of years) or if that data wasn't around and I had money to burn, I would conduct a few control-group test to see which siren sound was more irritating. 

 

Who would do this? I would look to neural scientist who study this sort of stuff, perhaps audiologists who could give insight with regards to sound types/spectrums that are most likely heard by humans. Perhaps there are 'primal' sounds (like the predators attacking sound) that have been hard-wired into our brains that will have maximum 'scare-the-shit-out-of-you' effect?

 

Finally, I would go see some sound engineers to build that sound using the gathered data and connect the new siren to an iphone app (iSiren/iPig) that the police officers could use to start the siren.

 

Stef 

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That was a boring answer...  :P... too serious.  :)

 

Things are slow at work and I actually considered doing a base project management project for it for fun.

 

However with more info now, this siren is supposed to sound more American (Why?) and will be used to pull over cars for instance. The traditional German?European Ta-Too-Ta-Ta sirens will still be used for going to emergencies. 

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