On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:47:35AM +0000, Roger Burton West wrote: > On or about Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:08:29PM +0000, Piers Cawley typed: > >And if the Big Cheese does hand down decisions that override the > >Minion then the contract between developer and client should stipulate > >that the client pays for the wasted time. > > Contracts _should_ say that the client pays for changes to what he > originally said he wanted. Sometimes they do. It's quite rare, in my > experience, for this payment actually to be demanded. (Usually some > excuse along the lines of "it's a big customer and we don't want to > annoy them".) This XP approach seems to require a lot more firmness I've also found a lot of customers are absolute *geniuses* at fudging the issue of what they did and didn't agree to, no matter how specific you attempt to be. Michael
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