Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Software Professional Validates Santa (23 Dec 2003) He exists as certainly as accurate project plans and thorough requirements exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary the world would be if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith, no poetic programming, no romance to make tolerable those weekly status meetings. We would have no enjoyment, except in making charts and graphs that can be understood only by esoteric upper management. Article URL: http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=DETAILSIDX&ObjectId=6918 Read 170 more articles from Sticky Minds sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Stuart Russell on the Future of Artificial Intelligence This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy