RE: [AM] Do tools sell?

Manfred Lange <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.modeling.agile
Organization csunit.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> -----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.
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