RE: Reality check

[Mike Stockman <stockman -at- jagunet -dot- com>]

On 01/16/2002 4:03 PM, Domaschuk, Rob (Robd -at- datalogics -dot- com) wrote:

>Here's my perspectiveÖ
>
>If the client wants it bad, then I can give it to them bad.

I can't disagree with this strongly enough. When I first started my
contracting career, I was told by a client "We just need it fast... if
the quality suffers, that's OK." It was done on their ridiculous
schedule, they were unhappy with the quality, and they tried to stiff me
because of it.

Clients who say up front that they'll sacrifice quality for speed are at
best fooling themselves (nobody's ever happy paying money for crap, no
matter what they say beforehand) or at worst are manipulating you into a
contract where you'll try to run yourself into the ground to give them
something not-too-bad in the timeframe given.

Bottom line: never take any contract where the deliverable is something
you'll be ashamed of.

----->Mike

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