[BlueSkyJaunte]

I've been a code monkey of one stripe or another for going on 12 years now. Most of the time (these days) I just tell the littler monkeys what to do but sometimes I actually get my hands dirty.

Generally speaking if the customer says "we won't/don't need that", in 2 months it'll become priority 1. So I learned the role of analyst as well--tell me what you want, and I'll try to figure out what you NEED.

While it sometimes makes for longer initial development times, maintenance and enhancement turn-around always benefits enormously.