The quote comes from years of working in a small technical area within a giant non-technical company. This company would announce fixed opening dates four years in advance, then allow physical construction to eat up all the slack time allocated for systems installation and integration while constantly changing specifications. Besides months of 16 hour days, 7 days a week by the software group, several very public failures resulted in adding back months to the schedule and adding millions back to the budget. Management never listened until the missed opening made their sponsors look bad to the public. Thus arose one of our favorite sayings.

James

There's never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over...

In reply to Re^2: wxPerl Object Store by jmlynesjr
in thread wxPerl Object Store by jmlynesjr

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