Re: Consultancy company

[Roger Burton West]

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
in customer relations than I've ever seen - and if that firmness were
present, we wouldn't need XP anyway...

Roger