Re: The developer has a role to play too...
"Generically as possible". Yep. I once had a project where a core requirement was to fax urgent reports direct from the computer.
This was 1994, the project was in VB3. After two weeks spent getting that working, they decided they didn't want that, and would print them and fax manually at the end of the day so the managers could check them first.
I was then asked what I'd been doing for two weeks because wasn't it clear that they didn't want that? Well, no - nobody told me that. So why was I two weeks behind then?
Honestly... I wish I was making it up...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
