Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Tue Nov 5 09:33:41 CST 2013
Oh boy! Arthur, that is so familiar to me. After working for five weeks to generate a specific report requested by my client, my client announces that there is a second page needed for the report that nobody ever told me about! TNF Tina Norris Fields tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com 231-322-2787 On 11/5/2013 8:11 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Shamil et. al., > > This reminds me of a horrendous episode that happened years and years ago > to me. I think it was the last time I ever flat-rated a contract. It was an > insurance company. Everything worked as it was supposed to, except for one > report. About 90% or maybe even more of the report was accurate. It was > basically a list of pension funds, some of which were retired and some > newly created, and the rest in between. The report did interest > calculations, and I took pains to ensure that 365.26 days per year were > used. For no apparent reason, some of the rows were wrong. I wrestled with > that code for something like a month, and I could not explain the errors. > Then one day in a meeting with the stakeholders, a guy mentioned that the > company did their interest calculations based on a 360-day year. They > simply ignored the Christmas period from the 25th of December to the 29th. > > Nobody had seen fit to mention this to me! Once this was mentioned, it took > a few minutes to adjust the calculation and everybody was happy --- most of > all me, because I had spent an unpaid month working on this problem. In > retrospect, it's kind of funny, but at the time it was not at all funny. > > Arthur > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>wrote: > >> " Stand your ground if someone tells you that you have coded a defect when >> there is no documentation for the requirement." >> >> http://java.dzone.com/articles/its-not-bug-its >> >> >> Be strong! :) >> >> >> -- >> Салахетдинов Шамиль >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > >