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How does one hold the requirements for "700 systems" in one's head? The only way that could possibly work is if the original systems are grossly repetitive and
by Roboprog 11y ago
How does one hold the requirements for "700 systems" in one's head?
The only way that could possibly work is if the original systems are grossly repetitive and unoriginal (variations on 2 themes, perhaps?).
- joshuarrrr 11y agoWhat's worse is that they didn't try to even hold those requirements on paper.
- Roboprog 11y agotouche`!
- rm445 11y agoThat must be the case, right? Software being as diverse as it is, probably a creative individual could sit down and name 700 types of software application, but more likely they were numerous variations of CRUD, shuffling information in and out of databases, managing who could access what information, and presenting it in various ways. Clearly there is something very wrong at the planning level of these big, failing, IT projects. Perhaps the temptation to begin by writing down all the commonalities between different software systems and seeing how one big system could do everything is part of the problem. But it's also easy to see how it is tempting to do so.