Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths To : comp.programming,comp.software-eng From : pete Date : Sun Jul 17 2005 04:35 pm David Lightstone wrote: > > "topmind" wrote in message > news:1121575256.385642.26870@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > The bottleneck is often the user/customer. > > They often don't really know > > what they want and/or how to describe it with words. > > If they "often don't really know what they want ....", how could they > possibly establish the priorities? Not very well. > How could they possibly determine what is > top be provided in a given increment? Sometimes they can't. All that you need to be a customer, is money. You don't have know anything. Sometimes the answer to "What do you want?" is "What do you have?". As a project progresses, the customer becomes aware of the programmers capabilities and then you have specification creep. -- pete .