Essentially Complete: It's half done. Schedule Exposure: It slipped three weeks ago. We predict: We hope to God. Risk is high but acceptable: 100 to 1 odds, or with 10 times the budget and 10 times the people, we stand a 50/50 chance. Potential show stopper: The team has updated their resumes. Serious but not insurmountable problems: It'll take a miracle. Basic agreement has been reached: The @##$%%'s won't even talk to us. Results are being quantified: We're massaging the numbers so that they will agree with our conclusions. Task force to review: 7 people who are incompetent at their regular jobs have been loaned to the project. Not well defined: Nobody's even thought about it. Still analyzing the requirements: See previous answer. Not well understood: Now that we've thought about it, we don't want to think about it anymore. Requires further analysis and management attention: Totally out of control. Results are promising: Turned power on and no smoke detected! Back to Dispatch Jul. 99 Table of Contents Back to Dispatch List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by HMGS Mid-South This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com