If you take the time to capture customer requirements at the start, and you did it poorly, that means you suck at capturing customer requirements!
Right. It totally isn't possible that the customer sucks at describing them.
Leaving aside the fact that it's possible for requirements to change for reasons outside the control of anyone involved in the project - and the longer the delay the more chance there is for that to happen.
You need a formal process. Before something's developed there's an outline proposal[1] and then somebody - ideally a group - decides if it's worth going any further with.
But that looks like bureaucracy and overhead.
[1] Length commensurate with the magnitude of the changes. Say the shipping lists are sorted in product code order rather than assigned vehicle order and because of that loading takes longer and things get missed. Half a side of A4 might cover it.
Considering that I've had one problem with init scripts ever, and it was so long ago I found the solution in an actual paper book, I'd conclude that you're talking out of Lennart's arse.
I would say that agile is for very self-disciplined developers & customers. If I'm developing something for myself, it's agile all the way. And has been for 30 years, I might add.
The thing is, you have years of accumulated business logic in C**** (I will not utter its name here). Do you reverse engineer and rewrite all that stuff in whatever language is bending on twatface and cackexchange?
No. Because you daren't. You have no idea what the holy fucking Mary it does, but you know that if it suddenly stops doing it you're in big shit[1]. There's magic 12s and 20s and 240s scattered about like underwear in Ibiza that are probably something to do with converting old money into metric[2], and if they left it alone in 1972 you're about as keen to change it now as you are to eat your own cock. So you wrap the shiny around it using something like this evil motherfucking ratbastard. https://www.ibm.com/developerw...
[1] Yes, TSB, I did glance at you. [2] It was just an excuse to put prices up, you know. Toilet rolls, 37p for two - that's over ten guineas each!
If you need "Stock market police" then get the government to do it
I'm informed by the awesome cayenne8 that any form of government intervention will lead to compulsory gay marriage and death panels like they have in Venezuela.
Well. there's something to be said f or consistency.
Imagine you have a two-tier system where then front end's done in some retarded offshoot of VB and the backend's done on some retarded version of perl? Where's the bug?
You forgot to mention how awesome you are because you're an independent contractor and you have a gun taped to the underside of your dining table and how you claim deductibles on your hobbies.
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GP is probably c6gunner, although normally he manages to work guns into it somehow.
The practice of defining anything he doesn't like - from sports umpires to the weather - as leftist is pretty much his trademark.
They found the "off" switch?
Right. It totally isn't possible that the customer sucks at describing them.
Leaving aside the fact that it's possible for requirements to change for reasons outside the control of anyone involved in the project - and the longer the delay the more chance there is for that to happen.
They nouned it?
As opposed to practical headteachers?
Pure gold.
Pure comedy gold, that is.
You need a formal process. Before something's developed there's an outline proposal[1] and then somebody - ideally a group - decides if it's worth going any further with.
But that looks like bureaucracy and overhead.
[1] Length commensurate with the magnitude of the changes. Say the shipping lists are sorted in product code order rather than assigned vehicle order and because of that loading takes longer and things get missed. Half a side of A4 might cover it.
Considering that I've had one problem with init scripts ever, and it was so long ago I found the solution in an actual paper book, I'd conclude that you're talking out of Lennart's arse.
I would say that agile is for very self-disciplined developers & customers. If I'm developing something for myself, it's agile all the way. And has been for 30 years, I might add.
I initially read that as "If it's working, you're not doing it right."
I'm on the fence as to which is more accurate.
Thanks to using tried and tested wartsandall I got a frosty pist!
The thing is, you have years of accumulated business logic in C**** (I will not utter its name here). Do you reverse engineer and rewrite all that stuff in whatever language is bending on twatface and cackexchange?
No. Because you daren't. You have no idea what the holy fucking Mary it does, but you know that if it suddenly stops doing it you're in big shit[1]. There's magic 12s and 20s and 240s scattered about like underwear in Ibiza that are probably something to do with converting old money into metric[2], and if they left it alone in 1972 you're about as keen to change it now as you are to eat your own cock. So you wrap the shiny around it using something like this evil motherfucking ratbastard. https://www.ibm.com/developerw...
[1] Yes, TSB, I did glance at you.
[2] It was just an excuse to put prices up, you know. Toilet rolls, 37p for two - that's over ten guineas each!
What are they going to use for a training set? It's not like there's a nuclear missile launch every week, is it?
I'm informed by the awesome cayenne8 that any form of government intervention will lead to compulsory gay marriage and death panels like they have in Venezuela.
Are you telling me it ain't so?
Perhaps he misread "Powertrain" as "Poettering"?
File that next to "Just following orders".
That's between them and their brokers, isn't it?
Have you looked on Netcraft?
Better hope there's not a fire truck on it.
Translation: Rei.
Man, you are totally Wight.
Which has nothing to do with the fact that looking through said window might be a good idea, to avoid sliding into a fire.
Well. there's something to be said f or consistency.
Imagine you have a two-tier system where then front end's done in some retarded offshoot of VB and the backend's done on some retarded version of perl? Where's the bug?
Most people make the mistake the other way round.
Naval gazing:. #Sitting on the dock of the bay ... watching the ships come in ... /#"
You forgot to mention how awesome you are because you're an independent contractor and you have a gun taped to the underside of your dining table and how you claim deductibles on your hobbies.