Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:24:24AM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote:
>
> >The vision I have is of a team (or teams) working in *our* premises,
> >with customers working with us.
>
> (side-rant)
> The customers _must_ be kept isolated from the developers. This is
> the single most important thing the customer-interface people
> (whatever you call them) can do. Inviting the customers into your office
> will drop productivity by 30-50% because your developers can't talk
> honestly about what's going on.
That's exactly wrong.
And the XP book explains why far better than I ever could.
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