Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tradeoff between time-to-market and quality

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On 12 April, the article was blanked by the primary contributor. While this is an old management theory, Christofurio's statement of balancing three objectives (cost, time and quality) is the normal formulation. This particular article strikes me as a student paper - sourced but not yet encyclopedic. Since the normal formulation would be a three-way balance, the title is not correct for the eventual article that we ought to write. I'm going to call this one as a delete, in part because of the author's page blanking. Rossami (talk) 04:46, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tradeoff between time-to-market and quality
Original research. Non-encyclopedic. --Woohookitty 00:00, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. Virtually every sentence comes with a reference from a peer-reviewed journal attached; how is this original research? I also fail to see how management science is not encyclopedic. The article certainly needs work, but VfD is not cleanup. Rl 07:10, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete if not thuroughly overhauled. Reads like a painfully boring essay, and sort of a how-to. Don't really see how it qualifies as an encyclopedia article. -R. fiend 07:13, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into management. This is not a suitable title for an encyclopedia article. Radiant_* 09:11, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, rename if a better name can be suggested. Kappa 17:21, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- heck, my father used to say, "there's cheap, there's quick, there's good. You can have any two of the three, but only by giving up the third." Thanks, Dad. That simple statement has immunized me against seeing any deep significance in this MBA-jargon filled gobbledygook. --Christofurio 18:22, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)


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