Re: Software Vendors(last minute changes and bug free software)

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel,

WHAT a nightmare - we've BOTH been that !

That's how we managed to cope - the "Oh, by the way..." said facetiously somehow
helped :-) !!

Chuck

Joel Fritz wrote:

> Couple of years ago I was getting ready to install a system used to estimate
> what we needed to buy to support projected sales.  It was the result of
> about six months of work and we had been careful to get end user approval of
> all of the features.  The main program displays sales and inventory (actual
> historical, and future projected) among other things.  At the 11th hour new
> management decided that the best way to view inventory for a given month was
> inventory at end of month.  The system had been written to display beginning
> of month inventory.
>
> In order to meet the deadline, I spent the next couple of days installing a
> vile kludge that I'm still ashamed of all the while chanting "Next month's
> beginning of month is this month's end of month."  Next the end users
> decided that the agreed upon method of entering projected sales was the
> exact opposite of what they really wanted.  "Vile kludge" is too nice to
> describe what I did to support that.
>
> Of course, it's been bug free for nearly two years now. <g>  (It does work
> and is used daily.  The end users still speak to me.)  Somehow, I don't
> think I'm the only one who's had this sort of experience.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:29 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Software Vendors
>
> David,
> That's what we used to call the "Oh, by the way..." occurrence. You would
> program EXACTLY to the users speck, constantly involve them in the process
> from START to FINISH, testing, etc. When everyone would agree that it was
> what they wanted, we'd get the "Oh, by the way..." that could TOTALLY change
> everything that had just been done <BG> !! Of course all the folks that did
> that are no longer with us :-) JUST KIDDING !!!
> Chuck
> David Gibbs wrote:
>
> > But it was suppose to display a screen.... :)
> > > > I humbly submit the following 100% bug free program...
> > > >
> > > > C                      EVAL     *INLR = *ON
> > > > C                      RETURN
> Sorry, you didn't specify that in the requirements document.
> If you would like to submit an enhancement request, I'll be happy to provide
> an estimate.
> LOL!
> david
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