The Flat Eart Society meets on every fifth Thursday, right next door to the
Crop Circles sub-committiee of UFOlogy International.
Mostly I’d say that they will not believe you until they have wasted tons of
money on the schmuck that thinks he/she/it can write anything in the
infamous “two weeks”. I think that you have already pointed out a few of
these if I’m not mistaken. These are the customers that opted for a
“quicker” solution from Jerk Water Inc. sitting in some low paying sweatshop
somewhere in the world who then came back to you to fix the piece of crap
that JWI could never get to work.
This also happens within well established companys with managers that think
that all software takes zero time to develope, and maybe someof that is our
own fault. If you tell those managers the truth, you know damn good and well
it won’t reflect well on your next review, so you fudge it. You put in the
same hours to get it done but you and your team work 80 hour plus weeks. By
the time the project is done, you’re a stranger to your family, you’re
facing burn out, and your boss has got another project for you.
–
The personal opinion of
Gary G. Little
“Don Burn” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntfsd…
> After dealing with a prospective client who just does understand the
> complexity of Windows file systems, I figured I would ask folks on this
> list, what do you do when you have a customer or manager who says “It
> can’t be that hard”.
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> We all get some bozo’s I know of one person who could not understand why
> the Rajeev Nagar book was anything more than the four chapters in section
> three on writing a driver. The last I knew they thought they could knock
> of a Windows file system in a few weeks.
>
> So my question is what do you tell these people?
>
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> –
> Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
> Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
> http://www.windrvr.com
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