mike  2006-08-15 23:26  Drupal   

This post on Drupal.org is too funny.. and too true.

The red triangle refers to a forumla we've developed that brings the greatest likelyhood of a large project going to hell. The idea of the red triangle is to ensure that the project manager is defacto non-existant. In the classic red triangle flow, the client, and designer directly order the developer, and the developer is given little to no leverage to refactor, or deny their requests. For best results, treat code and development as something like "witchcraft" -- like both witches, developers have magic powers; are not to be trusted; and often will pretend they can't do something because they are lazy. Our research has found that refusal to listen to warnings from developers is the quickest way to hell.

Hear, hear.