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Alan Cooper The Inmates Are Running The Asylum Pdf' title='Alan Cooper The Inmates Are Running The Asylum Pdf' />II. IT COSTS YOU BIG TIME. Wasting Money. Deadline Management. What Does Done Look LikeParkinsons Law. The Product That Never Ships. Shipping Late Doesnt Hurt. Feature List Bargaining. Programmers Are in Control. Features Are Not Necessarily Good. Iteration and the Myth of the Unpredictable Market. The Hidden Costs of Bad Software. The Only Thing More Expensive Than Writing Software Is Writing Bad Software. Opportunity Cost. The Cost of Prototyping. The Dancing Bear. If It Were a Problem, Wouldnt It Have Been Solved by Now Consumer Electronics Victim. How Email Programs Fail. How Scheduling Programs Fail. How Calendar Software Fails. Mass Web Hysteria. Whats Wrong with Software Software Forgets. Software Is Lazy. Software Is Parsimonious with Information. Software Is Inflexible. Software Blames Users. Software Wont Take Responsibility. Customer Disloyalty. Desirability. 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Benefits of Change. Let Them Eat Cake. Changing the Process.