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To: Contra Guy who wrote (1017)12/14/1998 11:33:00 PM
From: David Eddy   of 1361
 
Ben -

Although this may seem intuitive to you, this is simply not true and in fact represents one of the biggest misunderstandings about Y2K. This myth is closely related to another that is also repeated again and again and again: many software development projects are late and cost a lot more than anticipated. That's absolutely true, and I have the scars to prove it. The point is that Y2K does NOT fall into this category.

I'm not sure I follow your reasoning here.

I totally agree that elimination of 'scope creep' is a major advantage on Y2K efforts.

But "just keep it working like it does" isn't that easy...who's to say what is or is not a correct system now? Systems I would work on it was typical for someone to be yelling "Fix it!"...great, so how's it broken? What will it look like when it's fixed? Slippery questions.

Lots of these systems have been running under the covers for so long that no one really knows what it is they do.

If you're given clear marching orders to sit down & simply plow thru the work, that's fine...but I've seen far too much ongoing quibbling over whether or not Y2K is or is not an issue.

I still see a major immovable deadline.

And the solution to immovable deadlines is to toss functionality overboard.

- David
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