Re: SLOC-wars

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in message news:<a8s9ro$je3$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
> Once in a "career altering move" I was standing up in front of a bunch of

At GE we called it "career limiting move", or CLM. CLM was the name of
my vollyeball team in the GE league. :-)

> two-by-four and informed that this was the "wrong answer".
> 
> My response was to inform my superiors that they should have told me what
> the answer was before the meeting so I could have got it on the slide, but
> that I could easily take a grease pencil and write down any date they liked
> right now if they would be so kind as to tell me what numbers they wanted to
> see. I further informed them that when they got done dreaming about the cost
> of engineering in Heaven and we shot their schedule straight thru the head &
> woke them up, I'd be standing here telling them "I told you so..."

My typical reaction to this is to say: "Well then...what funtionality
would you like to remove?". I always have my favorite removal
candidates handy too, with savings estimate. :-)

The best response I ever saw though came from the legendary Gendreaux.
He walked up to the whiteboard in front of them all and wrote the
following:
---
  o  Bugdet
  o  Quality
  o  Schedule
Pick any two
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