Re: Re: SIP is "just another Six Sigma measure"?

On 2003.02.01, Dan Palanza <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Imagine top down in the precise pattern that you now do XP. Say I sell a 
> house. The simplest thing that can possibly work is to record the sale in a 
> single transaction. And so I do so and my books are in order. Then I get a 
> story card that requests differentiating the cost of the foundation from 
> the cost of the remaining structure. And so I break my single transaction 
> into two transactions that carry the same total. I keep working the story 
> cards until I have recorded a history of the building's details to the 
> satisfaction of all users of the bookkeeping data. Vendor accounts-payable, 
> customer accounts-receivable, bank balances, payroll, interest on loans, 
> etc.

How can you apply this refinement of record keeping detail to software
development?

How much record keeping is "just enough" to compute SIP?

-- Dossy

-- 
Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [email protected] 
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/ 
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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