Exoblog (Blogging outside the box)

Custom software projects never quite work out like you expect them to.  I am speaking as both developer and project manager, not just a customer.  I have been all three, but most of the time as a developer it is the odd things that you could not anticipate that really throw you.  I've installed hundreds of large databases, but every once in a while it will be a permissions issue or some corrupt file that is in the archive stack that virtually halts development for some period of time.  You can't really anticipate that stuff.  When you work on a large project there is time for that kind of thing (at least, there is an expectation that days rather than minutes are allocated for problem solving).  When you are in the custom world, however, this is not something you can really anticipate when you quote a small project.

Custom software projects never quite work out like you expect them to.  I am speaking as both developer and project manager, not just a customer.  I have been all three, but most of the time as a developer it is the odd things that you could not anticipate that really throw you.  I've installed hundreds of large databases, but every once in a while it will be a permissions issue or some corrupt file that is in the archive stack that virtually halts development for some period of time.  You can't really anticipate that stuff.  When you work on a large project there is time for that kind of thing (at least, there is an expectation that days rather than minutes are allocated for problem solving).  When you are in the custom world, however, this is not something you can really anticipate when you quote a small project.

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