Sadly, my professional experience included more projects like Ruven's than like Frank's. This encompasses one generously funded startup, and another high-cost internal development.
I've always remembered this succinct comment from a prospective customer: Customer: "This system doesn't provide anything I need. You're trying to sell me an empty box" Team of keen programmers: "But it's a very nice box ..." Look forward to your agile programming story, Ruven - it will almost certainly be repeated to my software engineering class! Alan -- Alan Blackwell Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/ Phone: +44 (0) 1223 334418 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/