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[czei at webperformanceinc.com (Michael Czeiszperger)]

On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 03:41  PM, BigLee Haslup wrote:

> The 90 Day Wonder.

At one particularly weird post in my career I had to attend VP level 
meetings to fill in for my manager who was in the hospital. As his 
hospital stay extended to months I learned that the most important 
thing to say at the monthly meet was that your project was "on 
schedule". I marveled at manager's ability to report the same thing 
month after month, when I knew for a fact the projects had failed to 
meet any deadlines at all.

As to why software projects take so long, I can't say. One VP remarked 
that "I wrote a VB program while watching the SuperBowl", so why is 
writing a simple AI program to detect what's playing on every radio 
station in the country taking so long?

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Michael Czeiszperger
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Web Performance, Inc.
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