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Request comes to pilot fish to provide employee data for the company-wide address book.

That's no big deal."Time to code: 60 minutes," fish reports.

"Affected employees: 8,000."Flash forward two years: Senior executives get new cell phones that should be able to import the company-wide address book.

Problem: The phone numbers are formatted for human beings to use, not cell phones.New request: Change address book format so cell phones can dial the phone numbers automatically."Time to code: 10 minutes to comment out old code and add new code," says fish.

"Affected employees: 8,000.

Employees who actually need this data: 10."Now it's another eight months later: Senior execs decide they're bored with having the entire company directory on their cell phones.




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