RE: Oh where has my disk space gone?

[bill.reger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

JT,

I follow your postings closely since (in a previous position) I worked for
many years (22+) in the retail sector as do you.  Usually I can relate to
most of your musings on working in retail, but this last one has me
scratching my head:

"In Retail, it's more like the 50/50 rule, because everything seems to be
done half-a'd.  It's an experimental approach, as opposed to Manufacturing
companies where the tendency (probably due to corporate culture) is to spec
out IT projects to a lot more detail"

I'd say my experience is that the 50/50 rule relates to the half of the
applications that are changing at any one time (retail business is ALWAYS
changing).  But we ALWAYS spec'd things out to a great detail although we
generally tried to anticipate as much change as possible and design in a
lot of flexibility.

Bill

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