On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:40 +1000, Daniel Bush wrote: > I sometimes think the converse can also be true at times - speaking from > very modest experience. > In the first instance, the client/boss asks offhandedly: "Can you make this > small change?" and it ends up being a rewrite of your life's work or you end > up founding a new branch of computer science in your basement in the wee > hours of the morning just to solve part of the problem (I kid!). Then they > frown and get all tentative and worried and ask: "Can you do this? Is it > difficult?" for something that ends up being a one-liner in a template > somewhere.
This is always true. I work the users of my applications to raise any complaints. If I do have to do a major change I can sometimes incorporate another requirement at the same time that was previous too expensive. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
