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> After all, in business, excuses are never acceptable. Clearly your father never built software. This shit is why people make up dates and then expect miracl

• WalterBright 2y ago
  The Caltech EE91 lab projects usually involved writing software. In one of my early jobs, I was assigned a programming task and given 6 weeks to deliver it. I delivered it in 4. The supervisor made a report via the project management system that I'd delivered it on time. I went to his office and complained about that, saying I wanted the record to show I delivered 2 weeks ahead of schedule. The supervisor said the project management software had no way to enter anything that was ahead of schedule. Another anecdote from the same company: They signed a contract with IBM to write some software for them, and was given 9 months to do it. The company hired a team of about 5 consultants to do it. If the software was delivered on time, each got a $10,000 bonus (this was back when $10,000 was a huge amount of money). The software was delivered on time. I asked one of them, did the bonus do the trick? He said, no, they were professionals. I laughed.
  • zer00eyz 2y ago
    >> consultants I do this now for a living. Phased releases, change of scope means pay out the phase and start a new contract. I collected 75% of cost of ONE project 3 times from a single client... DO A, no do B, no do A... they canceled A for a whole year. I came back and finished it on a new contract the 4th time for 1/2 the first contracts cost (cause it was done). It was not a trivial sum of money either.