First of all, I need a name for this software -- a code name. I could use what I might think the final name of the software will be, but experience tells me that that name will change before the project is completed. That name usually changes multiple times even near the end of the project right before it releases. For example, today, I might call this software "Resource Tracker", but my client (i.e., my wife and her group of homeschooler mothers) might want a different name before I'm done with this software. So, what do I call it instead?
I could just use a number calling it "Project 1" or "One". Or I could use the date and call it "August 15th" or "2008-08-15". Or I could pick some word or combination of words like "shoebox" or "ice pick". Often a code name comes from a historic or mythological figure, a fictional character, or the name of city or some other place. Usually, a development group comes up with a "reason" for picking the code name.
Well, I think I'll call this project "Shoebox" as the idea of the project is to track information about resources which might just as well be written on cards and stuffed in a shoebox.
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