...by someone who has spent 35 years living it...

1. The Application Development Lifecycle A perspective from someone who has spent 35 years living it

2. What the business felt it needed

3. What the business could afford

4. What the consultant proposed as a compromise

5. What the business agreed after consulting on the design

6. The new design after the funding realities hit home

7. What the detailed spec described

8. What the project manager would have preferred to deliver

9. What the programmer was thinking the entire time

10. How it was documented

11. The alpha release for user acceptance testing

12. After fixing faults and including changed user requirements

13. How the project marketed the rollout

14. When it was finally delivered

15. How it performed on the first day

16. How the users reacted

17. First year of production

18. After 5 years of changes and fixes

19. What the critics said would have happened if THEY had done it