Re: Developing Informix Application

In article <62nljc$g93$1@malgudi.oar.net>, William Harris <william@carsinfo.com> writes >In article <62mn0m$ok3@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, sas@mastic.gov.my says... >>My company and >>its client have already signed a contract, and any delay in the project >>will be blamed at Development Team. If we dont complete it, we will be >>seen as inefficient in our work. I dont know what to do. > >My post suggesting you read Yourdon's Deathmarch was entirely serious; it >boils down to two choices. Either (1) you do the work as well as you can, and >try to manage the consequences of the inevitable failure to fulfill the >commitments made by the moron(s) who signed the contract, or (2) get another >job and quit the sorry company that put you in that position. Yourdon devotes >most of his 200 pages to trying to manage the doomed-to-failure projects that >make up (1). If you're going to be held responsible for the situation, you >are definitely in a lose-lose situation. Syed is not alone! Our little team is in the same boat! Unfortunately the advice given our management to speed up GUI implementation was to convert the existing 4GL leaving the database unchanged! DONT EVER ATTEMPT TO CONVERT FROM 4GL to Object Orientated!!!! Start from scratch. Spent alot of time on good relational database design. Spent alot of time creating a couple of good supertable classes. You'll be knocking User friendly and effective NewEra screens out in no time. (Pity Jeff Hudson said his bit we are just getting to like NewEra) -- Mike Ripley