Steve,
I wish you were there to witness the commitment and the pride
of every member of the Dream Team who not only presented
and participated throughout the conference but very carefully
listened to all questions and requests during each presentation
of The Magical R:BASE 7.0 for Windows.
Let me see if I can summarize the way we work:
01. Our customers set very high standards.
02. We make every effort to live up to their high expectations.
03. Anyone who works for me MUST respect and live up to the
same high standards, No Bull, No Nonsense.
04. Anyone who does not is no longer part of this monumental
task.
05. I make things very clear every chance I get to make sure
that everyone involved understands the nature of this project
and respects each other. And, my Dream Team understands
as well as respects every aspect.
06. We have worked very hard and we want to make sure that
we incorporate every reasonable request.
Finally, I can assure you that we'll make every effort to bring
out the best of R:BASE 7.0 for Windows.
You ain't seen nothin' yet!
Very Best Regards,
Razzak.
At 04:17 PM 4/26/2002 -0500, Steve in Memphis wrote:
Razzak, although I am tired as hell, due to volunteer work at my alma
mater's conference track meet today, namely raking the long jump pit for
womens' & men's prelim's and finals, and I hope never to have to work so
hard again on a volunteer basis, I had to ask a Q as a result of this
message.
That y'all are able to implement on such a short cycle-time, what must have
been a request at last week's conference, potentially implies one or more
things to me. Now, on the worst-case scenario end of plausible implications
is that you're full of bull and simply lying, which I have no reason to
believe. At the best-case scenario end is that y'all not only can code, but
the implication that you've architected the system and its code well enough
that your developers know the structure of the system and well enough that
most mod's can be made w/o changes in the architecture of the system.
Okay, I hope that you'd be the first to candidly admit that y'all ain't
perfect. Nevertheless, if I may assume that it's stable/bug-free, at least
in integration tesing, to have implemented functionality that you apparently
had not included in your original functional spec's on such a short cycle
time implies to me that you're doing something very correctly in your
approach to managing the system design/architecture as well as its
implementation/code.
Okay, while I won't say anything more now about good architecture
facilitating good change management, etc, etc, etc, I'll offer a parable
I've come up with that I very much like.
Let's suppose you manage a fleet of piston-powered, propeller-driven
aircraft. Let's say you don't do a good job of maintaining logs f/op's like
flight, maintenance, engineering (change notices), etc, and that there is no
FAA or other governing body to force you to do so. Now, let's say it's
circa 1960 and Boeing has just demonstrated the 707. Well, now you want the
new technology, jets, turbines, swept wings, and all that jazz. But let's
say you still don't do a good job of management. The only difference the
new technology is gonna' make is that, assuming it hasn't happened already,
when that new technology hits the ground, it'll be moving about twice as
fast as that old technology.
The moral is, more or less, doing the wrong thing faster makes no
difference. The difference ain't simply the technology, it's how well you
manage whatever technology you got that's far more critical to success.
(I've probably angered any WWW maniacs who totally missed the dot-com bubble
bursting, but I think this is a good way to explain things.) F/y'all at
RBTI, it ain't just a re-write of RB in Delphi, but what I hope is a better
job of architecting and implementing the system.
I will also re-iterate my rec' to get and read a copy of "High Stakes, No
Prisoners", by Charles Ferguson. As the manager of a S/W company, this read
should be worth a lot to you.
Keep it goin, I remain hopeful, but managerially rational, meaning I want to
see v7 and what it'll do.
Later,
Steve in Memphis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: The Magical R:BASE 7.0 - Running EEPs in DBGrid
>
> To All Conference Attendees and R:BASE 7.0 Beta Testers:
>
> I'm very pleased to inform you that our Dream Team has
> implemented the functionality of running EEPs in DBGrid.
>
> The DBGrid Object Inspector will include the options for:
>
> . On DBGrid Enter
> . On Column Enter
> . On Column Exit
> . On Column Moved
> . On DBGrid Exit
>
> Ms. Karen Tellef, this one is for you!
>
> Stay tuned for more ...
>
> Very Best Regards,
>
> Razzak.
>
> P.S. Yes, I'm having fun!
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