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Actually, unfortunately, it is what MANY software development companies do to get code out the door… not necessarily because of bad business practice, but because “the customer is always right.”…even in regards to delivery dates.
Customer says, “We want it by this date or we won’t buy your software.” So, the development company does everything possible to hit that date at the expense of personnel time and, sometimes, at the expense of software quality.
The reason for this… ignorance on the part of the consumer as to what it takes to actually make a piece of software work right, look right, and not blow up because the I-D-10-T PEBKAC decided to try and do something that it was never intended to do.
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