Subj : Re: Expect/standards/lineItemBilling (was: How much should I charge...)
To   : comp.programming
From : Arthur J. O'Dwyer
Date : Sun Aug 28 2005 12:52 am


On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Randy Howard wrote:
>
> Spending 6 months out of every 12 memorizing a new set of
> made-up terms to describe some supposedly novel way to write
> software may be interesting for project planners, and keep them
> going to nice seminars adjacent to interesting golf courses, but
> for everyone else it is a colossal waste of time.
>
> (It does of course open up a financial bonanza for the evil
> folks that descend on these new buzzword festivals with training
> materials, certification programs, books, self-paced CD study
> kits, t-shirts, motivational posters and of course, special
> high-$$ software to track all the new buzzwords as the lemmings
> meander through the new labyrinth now created for them.

s/evil folks/upstanding entrepreneurs/

-Arthur,
not a commie

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