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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by mprovost on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @04:39PM (#4138985)
...but not on schedule.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by scotty79 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @04:43PM (#4138997)
Nothing ever get's built on schedule or within budget.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by unimpressive on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:01PM (#4139072)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Time#.22Valve_Time.22

Yes. But Valve is a bit of an extreme case.

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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by scotty79 on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:11PM (#4139131)
Just extremely honest about it.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by unimpressive on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:31PM (#4139222)
While I wouldn't necessarily disagree with that analysis, Valve time has more to do with announcing release dates and then going way over them than it does not shipping on internal deadlines.
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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by sparknlaunch on Thursday June 21, 2012 @02:32AM (#4140815)
>> Nothing ever get's built on schedule or within budget.

If anything, things always deliver on schedule and within budget. This is due to massive scope creep (scope reduction) and reduced quality.

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Re:Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than... by tanoku on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @07:49PM (#4139782)
Sorry, what schedule?
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