This pilot fish brags that he's worked on a software project that finished on time, on budget and with only "I thought you wanted..." problems when it was shown to the customer - and no problems when it was delivered. "Not possible, you say?" asks fish. "Well, I do grant it was a special case: The app was for the regional president. There was a standing procedure for change requests that was actually enforced this time. The next-to-last step in the procedure for a change request was that the requesting suit had to go to the sponsoring suit and explain the change and why it was important enough to delay delivery of the sponsor's app. For some reason, almost all of the "gotta have now" changes got to that point and suddenly became "next release." We just sailed along with the original design and the few changes requested by the president."
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