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Mar 2008

Flirting With Disaster

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Originally posted by "jjeff1"...

I’m exposed to a certain application twice a year. It’s used for a fund raising drive: fifty volunteers man the phones, people call in, and the volunteers take a poll and then enter data into the VB application on their workstations. These fundraising events are tied to schedules beyond our control, and there are absolutely no do-overs. That means the application needs to be rock solid.


The Green Email & Site-to-Site-to-Site-to-Store

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The Green Email
George Baker observed, "Some people take this 'green computing' thing way too seriously."


A Business Analyst's Views on QA

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Originally posted by "snoofle" ...

One of our BA's was nosing around for me to make some changes under the radar. We are under strict orders to do everything via our Change-Management system - no exceptions. The BA knows this. He says that if we put it into the CM system, that the QA people will know about it. I pointed out that that's the whole idea of CM.


They're buffered

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Originally posted by "jjeff1" ...

This is going back a while, when I worked at a mom & pop retail computer store. We took in a repair for someone who'd tried to build their own PC. The problem was with the sound. As soon as the tech took the cover off, he called us all over to look inside.


Random Stupidity

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Originally posted by "snoofle" ...

I found this deep in the bowels of something written by our offshore counterparts, in it's entirety:


Best of the Email

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It's Share Your Bizarre Email day! Here's three to get started...


James W passed along this email, originally sent by a manager at a certain non-profit...