Re: Impressing your boss

my favorite metric is percent done. This way managers can fill out there MS Project Plans with ever increasing numbers. Ever notice that projects that are in a hurry to increment percent done, spend 90% of their time being 90% done? your often better off sitting at 10% done, nailing down the requirements and design, then continuing on. You can often get the work done faster and it costs less to maintain.

how many times have i heard 'we don't have time for design, just start coding'. I think its partially because the client wants to see 'milestones' and you can have alot of coding milestones(and you may get a bonus for reaching milestones early)... even if the code is bad and the application doesn't work.

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> add pictures, too
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> >From: ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net
> >Reply-To: ryan_gaffuri_at_comcast.net
> >To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> >Subject: Re: Impressing your boss
> >Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:29:45 +0000
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