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Re:Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Software Project by wiz21c on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:42AM (#22139177)
Funny you say that. The way it goes with my boss is :

- boss: Yeah, don't spend too much time on planning it will be at best inaccaurate

- me: ok; I make a plan and, well, there are known unknows

- later on, my boss: why have you those unknowns ? don't you think it's obvious that unknowns are a problem and that we can't show our customer we have unknowns because we're-professionals-we-know-what-we-do ?

- me: err... well...

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Re:Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Software Project by SpicyLemonZest on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:57AM (#22139315)
I think you've gotta put yourself in the customer's shoes. If you ask a vendor when a project will be done, and they respond "well we have some unknowns haha", what are you supposed to do with that? It's not a very useful answer.
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Re:Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Software Project by gowld on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:23PM (#22148704)
"Here's what we've accomplished this month. Would you like to continue the engagement for another month?" Better than lying about knowledge of the future.
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