Coding Slave: 'Software is expensive'

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Some enterprise software isn't estimated at all.

1) Bigwig in one department or company meets with
bigwig in another department or company, neither of
which knows much about developing software.
2) They negotiate on what the software should do and
when it should be delivered, which rarely if ever has
any correlation to how long it will actually take to
do the job.
3) Project plans are formed according to the timeline.
4) When people that know something mention that it is
not feasible, they are told in so many words how
important it is to deliver on time, how much money it
will bring in, and to just get with the plan.
5) Software is not delivered by the agreed date and
heads roll, usually the ones belonging to the people
who first gave the warnings.
6) Software is finally delivered...late and severely
over budget. All of the scapegoats have been moved
out so all that is left are the ones who made the deal
and their minions.
7) Minions are sacrificed and software is set offshore
to be done cheaper, I mean, correctly.
8) The software never quite works the way it was
expected to work. It lives offshore constantly
getting fixed, I mean enhanced, and the rest is
history.

Posted by: Taz_z   Posted on: 12/04/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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