RE: [cinjug-users] Question on last Monday's meeting

["Manisha Kode" <mkkode@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Steve,

I think everyone comes across a client who is not ready to listen and 
behaves like my 5 year old who knows everything.  :)

I think we would use Iterative development process for this kind of 
situations. Where you get a chance to show the client how what they are 
asking is not a good idea in early stages of your project. You can find 
plenty of articles on web about iterative development process.

And  I would have my solutions ready as well in parallel so that I can 
compare and make them understand.. Its always tough to make 5 year old 
understand what is wrong and what is right :)

I hope this helps you.

Regards,
Manisha.


> From: steve.gutter@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cinjug-users] Question on last Monday's meeting
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:17:28 -0500
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> It was a good topic, but there's still one part that I don't see ever
> changing regardless of
> Data Processing or Object Oriented.
>
> This probably happens more often when you're a consultant,
> but I'm sure it occurs other times also.
>
> When the user (the one who is paying the bills) starts the project off with
>
> 'we know what data is available,
> and we've mocked up what we want the pages to look like and how they should
> flow,
> what we need is for someone to get it on the Web'
>
> sometimes there isn't much room for discussion as to the best way to do it.
>
> You can make suggestions, but if they're adamant (and they are, after all,
> paying
> the bills), you're pretty much locked into what they want,
> and you'll never get out of the Data and Processing scenerio.
>
> How do you typically address these?
>
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