Comments on: Money Is No Object Client

By: Kira Yamato

Kira Yamato — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:36:47 +0000

Que gran verdad, y es que con la mierda que pagan a los programadores no me extrañaria que un recoge cartones o chatarrero ganase mal.
que asco de enseñanza, de pais y de todo.

¡¡¡ Por un sueldo digno y justo para los programadores!!!
¡¡¡ basta ya de explotacion !!!

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 17:48:18 +0000

Hi Greg, by all means. Thanks.

By: Greg Williams

Greg Williams — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:29:11 +0000

Wonderful story, do you mind if I use it as a resource the next time I teach beginning WebDesign. It seems to really speak to the importance of planning and compatability issues which most beginning students don’t want to hear about.

Back when I used to manage a web development company, I saw this happen more than once. It was always nice to see the clients come back with tail between their legs to ask us to fix it. Amzazing how much time and money can be saved by doing things right the first time.

Greg

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:20:36 +0000

Tomas – man have I ever met people that believe that. Some days I feel like it describes everybody.

Bullock – Setup for failure. Well, I’d say that in this particular case what happened was that the client in this case didn’t want to spend the time necessary to make sure this project succeeded (by trusting experts). Since my company wasn’t hired to manage the project (nor did we have the time in December) we did our best but once the client decided our part was done everything moved over to a development shop that handled it horribly. Oh well.

By: Bullock

Bullock — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:34:01 +0000

It sounds like it was setup to fair. As a project manager I see this kind of issues all the time where a client just does not understand the planning and documentation that is needed to make an effort a success. You can throw all kinds of money at a project but it you are pressed against the wall it just will not work.

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:54:04 +0000

This doctor reminds me of the “Anything is possible if you don’t know what you’re talking about” philosophy.