RE: [AM] Do tools sell?
Manfred Lange <[email protected]>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Walker [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 5:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AM] Do tools sell? [...] > I have seen a perfectly good 100-person software company, > with household > name customers, that sank like a rock because of this problem. At > management insistence, a three-page Perl script was replaced > by a huge > "does everything" object-code-only package from a vendor. 1,000-page > manuals. Configurable only by scarce specialists. The rest > is history. > > Any agile advice for this ? Take it, put it on the shelf, and ignore it. We did this with a 350,000 US-Dollar software component. Best regards, Manfred. ---- Manfred Lange, http://www.agileutilities.com For more information about AM, visit the Agile Modeling Home Page at www.agilemodeling.com --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrKDA.bWnbtk.Z2NtYS1h Or send an email to: [email protected] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^----------------------------------------------------------------