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From: arndt@lymph.DEC
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Subject: Stephen Hutchison blues
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 09:37:39 EDT
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My word.  I can only hope that you work for AT&T or some other rabbit company
like that.  Your tale of being a software evaluator and having "schedule slips
and changes to specifications two weeks before the product is due to ship to
customers" makes me laugh and cry at the same time.  

I am a Product Manager in a software group and it is my job, among other things,to see that that sort of crap doesn't happen.  And it doesn't.  There are slips,but for valid reasons not because we don't know what we should build or a
programmer fell off his chair two months back and nobody noticed (they're doing
it all the time so how can you tell if it's serious?).

As for being one + 'ed by some turkey who comes in at the last moment to "changethe specs"  (do people actually get away with that in other companies??)  I once
put up a sign over a wastebasket outside my office for suggestions on the current product.  What ever happen to marketing sign off, management buy-in?  Is your
manager letting this happen?  Crazy.  If you work somewhere for DEC don't tell
and if you work for someone else get out before they fold caus' we're going
to eat them alive.

Wow.  Talk about war stories.  Poor lad.

Keep chargin'

Ken Arndt