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In the small companies I've been associated with the SDLC has been:
Marketing has an idea for a product. Marketing says "We should have a
product that does X". Lead programmer says "Okay, we can do that".
Lead programmer starts coding. Builds a demo version and says "While I was
working on it, I figured it could do Y in addition to X so I put that in
too". Everybody gets together and looks at it and says "Wow... cool; maybe
it should do Z, Alpha and Beta as well and how about if it did Y this way
instead of the way you did it". Lead programmer says, "okay; I'll change
the way Y works, somebody else should tackle Z, alpha and beta; who wants
to do that??"
And so it goes. Each time a new version of the product is built, I install
it from the development server and explore and change the docs.
And you know what?? I'm not a bit frightened. I like it that way.
Mike
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>Be frightened, be very, very frightened.
>
>In spite of that, I managed to produce user guides. I was about to make
>other claims, but decided to wait until the dizzy spell ended. <G>
>
>wanda
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