Interesting article on the software development process

John Whitfield john_whitfield at email.com
Tue Jun 4 21:01:03 EDT 2002


I'd agree for the most part, but it leaves out the critical issue of scope creep.  Somebody inevitably tries to push more features while insisting on the same schedule and budget.  You always need an up front agreement on how you're going to handle changes of scope.

John Whitfield


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From: David Kramer <david at thekramers.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:05:59 -0400 (EDT) 
To: BLU Boston Linux Unix group <discuss at blu.org>
Subject: Interesting article on the software development process


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