On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
The client is surprised. They usually don't understand that it was their penalty requirements that drove the price up. After all, this is supposed to be a simple project, merely performing adaptations to an already brought up platform, over in five weeks. As a result, it takes a few days, maybe even a week, to approve the quote (usually demanding that the price become lower). As far as the contractor is concerned, this week is not counted toward the delivery date, but since the client is constrained by external deadlines, as far as they are concerned, it does. The result is that the project is late, the client AND the contractor start disgruntled at the other side's "unreasonable behavior", and all sides lose.
Not only that, but it involves FreeScale, aka Morotola Semiconductor, well known for having technology and delivery problems. If they are surprised about penalty requirments, wait to they see the results of their technology choice. :-(
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