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"Let me guess" started Justin with a wry smile, "Mr. Van Halen is on 'strike' because he found a brown M&M, right?"
With a beleaguered look, Brian glared back over the rim of his glasses "If only - check your email."
In the late nineties, Eric started on his journey from being an engineer to being a programmer.
As part of the transition, Eric was assigned to work on an application that he and many of his fellow engineers were very familiar with - a program that created thermodynamic models used to design heat exchangers. Born and raised completely in-house, it was used in the design process of all of their company's products.
With Zach's technical knowledge and an excellent track record of handling large projects within the corporation, it was of little surprise when he received the task of estimating the amount of effort to create, in-house, the company's new web portal.
You see, in Zach's workplace, whenever an outside vendor was being considered to develop any in-house app, a "second opinion" would be obtained to see what it would cost to perform the same task using the company's existing available resources. The reasoning was simple - whichever side was the cheapest go the task.
Apr 10