One of the reasons for my success as a a contractor was that I developed tactical applications that looked beautiful: polished, finished, and they performed a core set of functions seamlessly...
Good layout, a couple of well-chosen graphics, and filling out the expected menus and dialogues is all of a morning's work. Negligible, even.
...Which led to a natural expectation that they ought to fulfil all manner of extended expectations; the skill is managing that away from dissatisfaction into requests to extend my contract and implement the new requirements.
The feature creep strikes again
Date: 2014-02-09 10:54 pm (UTC)Good layout, a couple of well-chosen graphics, and filling out the expected menus and dialogues is all of a morning's work. Negligible, even.
...Which led to a natural expectation that they ought to fulfil all manner of extended expectations; the skill is managing that away from dissatisfaction into requests to extend my contract and implement the new requirements.