from the mind of Phord ? Blog Archive ? What the customer really neededI had a single computer programming class in high school in the 80’s. On the first day, the teacher handed out a badly xeroxed version of this image. Welcome to software development! In case you’ve never been party to a software life cycle, here’s a blow-by-blow. (Explaining the joke kills it, so you engineers should read no further.) How the customer explained it. The customer usually has no clue
