Chapter 11. Introduction to Development Methodologies and FLiP

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.”

——G. K. Chesterton

Stan hadn’t been in Hal Helms’ “Developing Applications with ColdFusion” class for more than five minutes before he heard about the “70% Failure Problem.” This refers to a study that revealed that 70% of all system development efforts fail. That is, they are either never completed, or after they’re completed, they fail to satisfy the needs they were intended to meet. (For more on Stan and friends, see this book’s Introduction.)

Nodding his head in sympathy, Stan could easily remember ...

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