
114 ◾ Information Systems: What Every Business Student Needs to Know
program within the available time and resources. “Just one more little feature” turns out to
aect many features, and the list of “more little features” never stops at one.
Where you t in: You need to know what programmers do in order to make informed deci-
sions about what they should do. Chapter 11 describes the process of writing software and puts
it into its business perspective, focusing on how you’ll be involved in it as a businessperson.
Open-Source Software
Much of the soware you use is written by companies whose business is selling it. Microso,
for example, makes ...