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Subject:Re: Educating Clients In Action (long) From:Steve Delanghe <zulu -at- CIX -dot- COMPULINK -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:18:10 GMT
> One way is to put a number of these things in
> the contract
It's my experience that clients don't even read contracts, much less
stick to anything written in them. As for your problems, in ten years
I've only once had a client that kept to deadlines for reviews (IBM! -
but then they had 50 reviewers...).
> a little moral reinforcement
Coming privately!
Steve
(...hang the sense of it, just keep yourself busy...)
