On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:36:05AM -0800, Kristina Anderson wrote: > Or, he could end up building something that doesn't work right, take > 80% of the budget, and leave me to reengineer it for the crumbs in the > budget that are left....?
/me yearns for the days where Information Engineering was actually a practised and respected discipline! ERDs, Data Definitions, Data Flow Diagrams... Yourdon was my hero! Clearly defined specs, phases, payment based on the passing of the predefined unit testing... final payment after documentation is finished and delivered. Those days are gone forever... Tim _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php