If you can quantify this, and then translate it into dollars lost versus dollars saved, you'd have a case to bring to management to at least reduce the frequency of changes if not reduce the number of changes altogether.

Example:

  1. measure these items over the course of one month.
  2. compute the number of hours
  3. compute the amount of money spent by multiplying the hours by the average hourly wage (you'll have to figure this out yourself)
  4. multiply this number by 12 to get the yearly estimated cost
here's the kicker, ask them how much of this money being spent is benefiting the customer!

HTH

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hiseldl
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In reply to Re:^3 (Slightly OT) Perl and Oracle Designer by hiseldl
in thread Perl and Oracle Designer by tbone1

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