| Robert C. Martin 2004-07-24, 3:56 am |
| On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:56:28 -0700, Alan Balmer <albalmer@att.net>
wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:39:41 -0500, Robert C. Martin
><unclebob@objectmentor.com> wrote:
>
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>Not always a good idea. Sometime we don't want customer-facing types
>broadcasting their versions (and usually extrapolations) of what
>they've seen in the lab. I would think this especially true when you
>are building new features on a continuous basis, with many executable
>steps which may look little like the final product.
Many companies take the view that customers should be kept as far away
from the developers for as long as possible. That customers should be
kept in the dark and fed promises.
I think this is a losing proposition that a competitor could take
quick and decisive advantage of.
Think of being a customer had getting regular reliable reports from
one vendor, and stonewall promises from another. Which would you
rather deal with?
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Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
Object Mentor Inc.
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"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom,
but to set a limit to infinite error."
-- Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo
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