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How to interpret software development status
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For those in the software industry...
* HOW TO INTERPRET DEVELOPMENT STATUS *
* *
* What Developers Say: What It Means: *
* -------------------- -------------- *
* *
* Essentially complete It's half done *
* *
* Schedule exposure It slipped three weeks ago *
* *
* We predict We hope to God *
* *
* Screen design is lagging Not a single screen exists *
* *
* Risk is high but acceptable 100 to 1 odds; or, with 10 *
* times the budget and 10 times*
* the people, we stand a 50/50*
* chance *
* *
* Potential show stopper The team has updated their *
* resumes *
* *
* Serious, but no insurmountable It'll take a miracle *
* problems *
* *
* Basic agreement reached The &%$#@'s won't even talk *
* to us *
* *
* Results are being quantified We're massaging the numbers *
* so that they will agree *
* with our conclusions *
* *
* Not well defined Nobody's thought about it *
* *
* Not well understood Now that we've thought about *
* it, we don't want to think *
* about it anymore *
* *
* Requires further analysis and Totally out of control *
* management attention *
* *
* Results are encouraging Power-on produced no smoke *
* *
* Awaiting installation Design package has been *
* thrown over fence to *
* operations *
* *
* Awaiting redlines Operations threw it back *
* *
* Hardware installation complete It's software's fault *
* *
* Software installation complete It's hardware's fault *
* *
* Hardware and software installation It's operation's fault *
* complete *
* *
* Software is cycling Computer must be rebooted *
* after each pass *
* *
* System is ready for delivery We give up *
* *
* System has shipped It's lost in our warehouse *
* *
* We would like to offer Give us more money and *
* enhancements/upgrade we'll try to make it work *
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