RE: Most annoying word

["Evans, Diane L (Rosetta)" <diane_evans -at- merck -dot- com>]

I used to work in a dot-com.  The manager would often talk about
"productizing" our software.

Here are the definitions I came up with for the steps to productization:

Thoughtware -- One developer thinks about the software
Vaporware -- A screenshot of the potential software exists in Photoshop.
Development -- A long period of time when the software is being worked on
Testing -- Another long period of time which ends the day before the rollout
Productized -- It's on the market and at least one person has bought it.

Another cute dot-com story:  My nephew worked for a dot-com that spent it's
Venture Capitalist millions to develop some software.  Only one sale was
ever made, for the grand total of $24.27.  When the business went down in
flames, someone made t-shirts for all the employees that read "$24.27."

Diane Evans
Requirements Analyst
ASQ CSQE
Rosetta Inpharmatics
206-802-6560


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