[PetiteCloud] grate book on how to specify systems

[Michael Thoreson]

Those criticisms perfectly explain why closed source solutions don't 
work when you are trying to make use of features from multiple vendors. 
Businesses spend stupid amounts of money on what sales people say will 
do the job for them and then hand off to the IT staff saying make them 
work together.

You end up with custom scripting that will eventually break something 
and the only people that can fix it are your IT staff but they have to 
spend days on the phone with all the vendor support lines trying to get 
past the "we don't support that configuration" BS.

No wonder Macrocrap (Microsoft) has done so well making lots of small 
programs seem to work together flawlessly.

Michael Thoreson,


On 14/02/2014 6:00 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> It is amazing how many people do not get it for example look at 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming (criticisms section)
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Michael Thoreson 
> <m.thoreson at c4labs.ca <mailto:m.thoreson at c4labs.ca>> wrote:
>
>     To me the concepts in that book are common sense. I did a medium
>     sized network setup for a Union Office in my area with vpn between
>     two cities and before even considering a quote or any real
>     discussion, I asked to spend a few days observing day to day tasks
>     at each office so I could understand how the offices functioned.
>
>     No sense spending $30,000 on a deployment and the customer say wtf?
>
>     Michael Thoreson,
>
>
>     On 14/02/2014 2:41 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>
>         In many ways this book is one of FNWE's bibles (books that
>         capture our way of doing things [which often predate reading
>         the book]).
>         http://www.amazon.com/Specification-Example-Successful-Deliver-Software/dp/1617290084
>
>         -- 
>         Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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