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From: chipr@niestu.com (Chip Richards)
Subject: Re: The Impossible Project: not so funny... (Was: what's wrong)
Date: 1996/12/22
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Date: 1996-12-22T00:00:00+00:00
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Tim Ottinger, Robert Dewar, John DiCamillo, and Guy Rixon wrote:

   > Kazimir Majorinc wrote:
   [Details of nightmare deleted]
   Here's another one to worry about:
   [etc., etc.]

Would you guys stop it!?  My boss thinks I'm posting our internal memoranda to
the net! <grin>

Seriously, I've never been on a project that has been afflicted by *all* these
problems at once, but they are each terrifyingly familiar.  And please, don't
really stop writing about it--I'm loving this stuff.

Of course, no amount of astute project management can help you if you build
your project on a platform that's discontinued by its vendor two weeks after
you release your product.  Not that such a thing would *ever* happen, noooo.

--
Chip