>>>>>>>>>>>>How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb ?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>One, but the light bulb has to want to change.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>One, and it is NOT FUNNY!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Q: How many statisticians does it take to change a light bulb?
>>>>>>>>>>A: 3, +/- 6.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Dot netters?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>About thirteen... one to write code, and the others to come up with a proper object model, select the right classes for the job, track the project, write help, draw the icons, write documentation...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I think you're going to need a competent management team in on that as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And then you need developers to refactor the code and have Agile meetings.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And then they need to move the code to WPF.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And then then need to add WCF.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And then it needs to move to Silverlight.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And then redo it for Azure.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And then the need a new project manager to decide that wasn't what they wanted in the first place.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Sounds like you're going to need a personnel dept to decide who to let go as well.
>>>>>
>>>>>And then you need to hire a couple of data modelers to make the system ready for the next, much improved data access model that will replace not the latest, but the one before the latest, which is what is used in this particular application. (Rumor has it that it will be a slightly modified but completely renamed VFPOleDB.)
>>>>
>>>>Its getting too big. Time for a management consultant. (and his/her team)
>>>
>>>I miss the old days. this was about the time i'd have signed on as coke dealer on this project ...
>>
>>There may be a budget code for that. I'll check with the finance guys we just hired.
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>It would not be unprecedented for "requirements" or "expediting" to be in development budgest.
>
>In the late 70s in Silicon Valley when there was a limited supply of chips the "brokers" who magically had access to the scarce supply would travel around to the various purchasing departments at the engineering companies and enter with a case of chips and come out with a bag of coke (the providing of which sine qua non of getting the limited supply of chips) , which they would then market to the developers and engineers working 36 hour days. In the PG version the PC revolution was fueled on caffeine. Well, I guess part of it is true - it was fueled from Columbia and Bolivia. The Red Bull of 1980.

Nothing so exotic but I remember a lot of development being done in the pub.
For a while the support number for payroll (overnight batch job) was a pub round the corner.