Late Friday afternoon, I always get a few funny e-mails (part of the Friday afternoon humor habit that I share with a few of my friends). Today, it surely was not a disappointing day, as I got a link to a Tom Evslin blog entry that I missed (it was originally posted back in March). Here are a few highlights from this gem:

“It’ll be done ASAP.” Translation: There is no schedule yet.   “That feature shouldn’t add any time to the schedule.” Translation:  There is no schedule yet.   “It’s fifty percent done.” Translation: It hasn’t been started yet.   “It can literally do anything you want it do.” Translation:  There is no spec yet.   “It’s ninety-five percent done,” Translation: The remaining five percent will take ninety-five percent of the elapsed time.   “It’s feature complete.” Translation: The feature list has been truncated.   “It’s Alpha ready.” Translation: A lot of code has been written; none tested.   “It’s Beta ready.” Translation:  It’s Alpha ready.”    “Ship it!” Translation:  The Development team is sick of this and wants to move on to something else.  The customers will test it.

Read it all!  Definitely very entertaining...