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by George Dinwiddie.
Original Post: Software Development is not a Commodity
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Esther Schindler, a senior editor and columnist at CIO.com, recently asked on the agile-testing yahoogroup,
If you could get the (client) boss(es) to understand JUST ONE THING about computer consulting and contracting, what would it be?
It would be that software development is not a commodity. The cost-value equation is not just enhanced by cutting costs, [...]