Ron Johnson said on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:16:22PM -0500: > The SDLC and corporate politics are independent. Academics should > take corporate politics into consideration when coming up with these > theories. There's a good reason they don't: corporate politics are not a benefit to the company, and therefor don't fit into most models of how a corporation "works" (since many models assume rational behavior, ie, behavior that will benefit the group as a whole). If your company tolerates internal politics, well, you're going to be in trouble when your competitor, who doesn't tolerate that kind of crap, comes along.
> With tight budgets and tight schedules, I've *never* seen a project > rewritten. Rewriting from scratch is dangerous anyway; you exchange all of the bugs you know about for a whole new set of bugs which you haven't discovered yet. Better to improve what you've got. This can result in a totally different codebase after a while, but at least you have been able to test and release along the way. M
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