Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wor-mein!pete
From: pete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Reporting progress on a software project
Message-ID: <1377@wor-mein.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 88 15:08:52 GMT
References: <917@blue.engin.umich.edu> <10941@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: pete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner)
Organization: Quantum Medical Systems, Issaquah WA
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In article <10941@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> csm@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
>You must have the following guarantees from the powers that be:
>   1) Hardware and Software for the project will be delivered
>to you on schedule or the project will be extended on a day
>for day basis.  If you are not responsible for procurement  
>and/or installation make sure that delays in this process are 
>documented and added linearly to expected delivery date.  

Has any engineer out there EVER been able to get "the powers that be" to
sign up to slip a project schedule in this fashion?

This sounds completely unrealistic to me, even if it does make sense.


Pete