Eminently quotable! This is why I will not take fixed-price jobs.
.Jerry

> On Feb 29, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> * Any projection of ship dates from any one about any software is, 
> ultimately, a form of guesswork.  We have 50 years of ACM literature to back 
> that up, and insightful authors from Fred Brooks to Steven McConnell to 
> explain why this unpredictability persists.  Until when a system ships can we 
> know the ship date.  Prior to that the inevitable unpredictable things that 
> define our universe and the software development tasks we do within it will 
> come into play.  I always try to keep this in mind with all software from all 
> vendors.


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