"So... why does your software keep crashing, but your office-building   
   never falls down?"   
      
   You've obviously not dealt with the company that built my last house.   
      
   "(And why didn't they have to build it three times, asking you each   
   time, “is this what you want?”)"   
      
   Nor with the couple (expecting their first child) who sign off on the   
   plans, only to have wife change her mind 15 times during construction   
   (moving the bathroom and kitchen to the other side of the house, after   
   the plumbing and gas pipes were laid and the concrete slab poured and   
   cured). That house cost 2.5 times the original quote and took 3 times   
   longer to build, because the builder eventually stopped all work once a   
   week, to ask the wife, "is this what you want?".   
      
   In my experience, a lot of software development is very much like   
   building a house for just such a couple. Users who change their mind   
   after signing off on (very tight) specs when the deliverables are almost   
   due. THEN they complain about cost over-runs and late delivery. Sheesh!   
      
      
   Sundial Services wrote:   
   > ... and I wonder what you think of them.   
      
   --   
   Tom Krieg   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)