>>>>>It's old, but it's still funny:
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>>>>>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/images/software_engineering_explained.gif
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>>>>OK... let's see who remembers the first time they saw this. Mine was in autumn 1987, at a training course for VAX VMS in Nova Gorica (where I left the train by the wrong door and almost stepped into Italy :). The guys in The VAX Room had it glued to the inside of a locker door.
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>>>The black and white version was shown to us, as students in a "Information Systems Analysis" course in 1978.
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>>I find it strange that as old as it is, it is still true today. :)
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>At the time it was so true for Romania, we didn't realize it was so universal.

I am currently work at a company that sales and installs a point of sales application. With several hundred installation, it amazes me that they (he) still runs it like a "one man pony show". QA? what that they say. Testing? that for companies like MS. Bug tracking? we have a excel spread sheet, somewhere. They predict that the client number will over double in the next year. The customer service area is currently overwhelmed with phone calls.

The IT world is the same as it has always been. So sad.