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Xiangyang Liu wrote: sooner or later my son will enter the competition.
All is not lost! If the student passes the teacher, there's always video games to be played. 
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I just started my own business, which means I am the CEO, the architect, the alpha developer, the documentation specialist, the customer liason, contract coordinator... but she is the accountant.... that means she makes the decisions. 
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: customer is always right, but the boss writes the check
Guess who writes the boss's check? 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Guess who writes the boss's check?
 I hear ya, but if the boss doesn't want me doing something the client wants me to do. Well, you get the idea. I'm gonna listen is all I'm saying.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: but if the boss doesn't want me doing something the client wants me to do. Well, you get the idea. I'm gonna listen is all I'm saying.
That is handy to remember! *making notes*
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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El Corazon wrote: *making notes*
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Person with the least understanding of the implications of any decision. And the same person that will shirk any and all responsibility when the whole thing goes wrong. Further more, the snake is the person that is not around when developers are fixing things after hours to make up for these issues.
Hogan
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Unless you have the type that will hover over you and critique your work even when they have no idea.
djj
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I thought it was about the coding not the architecture. In which case it would be alpha-dog.
djj
God made a few perfect heads, the reset have hair.
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I agree it really depends. If the customer has clearly stated what the functionality is they want, the design and implementation should be left to the coders (they are after all the professionals you hired because you can't/don't want to deal with the details yourself). Obviously if I'm creating a new product and am going to try to sell it I'll try to target some customers, but in the end if I think feature X is important enough I'll add it even if no one has asked me too.
I've on numerous occasions have automated an onerous manual process into a one click DB frontend to much rejoicing by the end users. They didn't even think about their workflow, they were convinced you had to cut and paste into excel, type in your formulas etc etc.
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Are project managers not even on the radar of the software industry. Explains a few things!
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Maybe I was too obscure with my catch-all "alpha developer"... 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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What if you are the alpha developer and eat customers for breakfast? 
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Many project managers are ashamed of being called "developers".
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It seems as if Text-entries are eaten by the software? 
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
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Who cares!
WPF - Imagineers Wanted
Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath
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I am ready to kick my manager's ass any time , especially @ the time of appraisals 
Nishu
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