Re: Do you use formal project planning?

No matter how small or big the shop nothing is wrong with following SDLC. Too many do not due to TIME, but pay in the long run in maintainace and/or poorly resulting system. The trick is not to spend all your "TIME" planning. Yeah I've been an QA Analyst too!!! Get FORMALIZED Project PLAN! What started as 10 tables and 3 programs, suddenly one day becomes 150 tables with 500 programs!!! With no DOC or project plan you then do not have any history.....just to mention one aspect of the problem of NOT having a project plan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheryl Kendricks Internet:cherylk@prod1.jcdc.doleta.gov OR cherylk@gwysmtp.jcdc.doleta.gov DTSI, Inc. Database Administrator - DOL Job Corps San Marcos, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 elderbox@teleport.com wrote: > My apologies to anyone thinking this is non Informix related item. I am > posting this here because we are an Informix shop and the detractors > keep stating that because we use an RDBMS like Informix there is no need > for formal project planning. You know, why do we have to have a problem > spec, a design spec, etcetera. We are just a small shop. > > I am soliciting responses so I can quantify. Do you use formalized > procedures in project planning and development? >