Hiya JimN ---

I knew of the book but hadn't read it. Yes, those seem to be worthwhile topics.

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>Reading this thread it occurred to me that I had seen several of these 'topics' before, and it finally hit me as to where I had seen them.
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>Whil Hentzen's "The 1999 Software Developer's Guide" has chapter titles as follows:
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>Section 1 - How do I get the business I want
>Chap 1: Setting Expectations
>Chap 2: Positioning
>Chap 3: Marketing
>Chap 4: The Initial Contact
>Chap 5: The Sales Call
>Chap 6: An Agreement to do Work
>Chap 7: Auditing an Existing Application
>Chap 8: Pre-Development Scenarios
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>Section 2 - How much will it cost - and how long will it take [designing]
>Chap 9: The fundamental premis behind Time and Dollar Quotes
>Chap 10: The Functional Specigication
>Chap 11: The process of developing Specifications
>Chap 12: Determining Time and Cost
>Chap 13: The cover letter and delivery of the functional spec
>Chap 14: Specification War Stories
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>Section 3 - Where do I "make" the software? [the factory]
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>Chap 15: The development environment
>Chap 17: Your secret weapon: An adiminstrative Assistant
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>Section 4 - How do I make the software [Manufacturing]
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>Chap 18: Good-Fast-Cheap: pick any one
>Chap 19: Manufacturing Instructions
>Chap 20: Code Reviews
>Chap 21: Application Feedback
>Chap 22: Testing: Who does it?
>... more, but tiring
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>Section 5 - How do I get others to help me?
>5 more chapters under here
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>Don't know if you have it, but I am expecting it to be helpful (only glanced at it as currently under a fairly long contract, so will read it later).
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>Cheers
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>Jim N
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>>Hi Stephen ---
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>>Excellent ideas. Yes, I'd like to see some utilities/templates/whatnot addressing business topics available on the UT. I'm actually in the process of writing a proposal-maker using integration with Word and, when and if I ever finish, it's getting posted here on the UT.