Interlude: The Cutting Room Floor

Some patterns didn’t quite make it into the book:

• When Your Manager Is a Midget

• If I Had a Hammer

• The ISO-Standard Condom

• Whistle While You Work

• The Corporate Charity: Skipping Against Halitosis

• The Ouija vs. Function Points: An Empirical Study

• You Be the Judge: Are They User Reps or Potential Organ Donors?

• If Your Name Really Is Dilbert . . .

• Cubicles Without Exits

• I Don’t Usually Do Things Like This on the First Release

• Why St. Jude Is the Patron Saint for Testers

• No Dickheads or All Dickheads?

• A Mullet and Two Gold Chains

• Maori War-Chanting: The Next Team-Building Exercise

• Why the Cleaning Lady Was the Only Person Who Actually Read Your Entire Test Plan

• Save Valuable Time: Write Requirements After Beta

• Faith-Based Software Engineering

• Cheese Never Sleeps

• Rapture of the Bits

• Arriving in Bangalore After Midnight

• The Bedpan at the End of the Rainbow

• Requirements-Free Software Engineering

• HR Hires Our Astro-Physicists

• The Bozone Layer