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[scissors of brevity]

> However, even if a software shop has reached CMM Level Million-and-Six,
> there is absolutely NO GUARANTEE that:
> 
> * The procedures are written in plain, grammatically correct English and
> are at least self-consistent;
> 
> * The procedures can be followed with the information given by the
> development client;

This is the biggie. It's *really* hard to develop a truly
innovative and *useful* product without more-or-less real-time
feedback from the client. I don't care if you build be what
I specified, I'd rather you built me what I *want*.

Cheers,

-- Joe Knapka

-- 
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hurry up before I grow to old. -- Joe Strummer, 1952 -- 2002
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