I think even back then the "Do you have an up-to-date schedule?" was a bit self-serving (Fog Creek had a related product). On the other hand things like source

I think even back then the "Do you have an up-to-date schedule?" was a bit self-serving (Fog Creek had a related product). On the other hand things like source control really weren't ubiquitous at that time and yet nowadays it would be a very poor engineering culture that didn't use something for source control.