From negative to positive

[Mark Wieder]

Liam-

Monday, April 10, 2006, 10:53:48 AM, you wrote:

> I just want to tell you something positive about using Rev. We were
> using some software that was costing the company a lot of money and
> did not fulfill our needs. So I wrote some new software using Rev.  
> This Works Great and all the people that use it are very happy as I
> asked them what they needed. I was able to write this quite fast. My
> Boss was so happy that he gave me a new MacBookPro. I could not have
> solved this problem with out Rev for its ease and speed.

You ASKED your users what they wanted? And then GAVE it to them? Gave
it to the FAST?

Watch your step, buddy. That sort of stuff can get you kicked out of
the High Circles of Software Development. Here's how we do things at
BigCompaniesRUs:

Write whatever slop you want
Convince the users it's what they want
Now that they really want it:
Charge them more than they want to pay
Take your time so they know how much work you're putting in
Charge them for updates to change it to what they need

<g>

Seriously, that's a great story. Congratulations. You might want to
think about expanding it for one of runrev's case studies.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net