[ecpottinger]

All I know. When I ask the business people what they want the program to do, the answer is so vague that any working program you write has a 99% chance of not being what they want.

Of-course the answer is to ask more questions, but I also know how these business people tend to think, they expect magic. A person who is a programmer can keep asking questions, but a machine? They will try to turn it off after a little while.

Good luck getting the EGO head that too many business head are to answer questions.

And if the job is move to someone lower in the organization, the answer to 50% of the questions asked will be 'I don't know.".