let’s talk turkey<\/u><\/b> – the nature of life "out loud"<\/p>\n
If you’ve followed the Unfortunately, not everyone agrees. I got a phone message that went into some Fortunately, I got in contact with the client and we discussed the situation. Why do people mistrust consultants and programmers?<\/i><\/p>\n Computer consultants have a bad reputation. It is somewhere between lawyers Some of the public relations hurdles of programmers:<\/p>\n I have been pretty careful during my professional career to make sure the clients Unfortunately, especially when developing something from scratch the specifications Let’s take a system I almost took a contract to build (ultimately I decided "When an order is entered, the total should be calculated and reflect Now… doesn’t that sound easy? They already have a menu – so the price shouldn’t See the problem? Those five words were and afterthought scribbled on late in Software is chaotic in the mathematical sense. Small changes So, estimates are sometimes wrong, things sometimes cost more than they seem For clients: the important thing is to make your choice and act accordingly. For consultants: it is crucial you act in a way that will keep your conscience I follow those rules as a person as well as professionally – I am more than On another interesting note – the phone call was prompted by the events mentioned I will continue to write the truth as far as I know it here – along with my It is a trip. And I >like< that those people read this log. It is communications In other words, our society works in part because people don’t really know I have gotten much more out of my website that was good than bad, besides I My choice to share, your choice to read\/see or not, sounds fair to me. This Enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" let’s talk turkey – the nature of life "out loud" If you’ve followed the saga from a while ago, you know that dotPublishing had a tough time with a project. Obviously, it isn’t good for anyone when something happens like that. As a person, you do what you can to make good, and as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n saga<\/a> from a while ago, you know that dotPublishing had a tough time with
\n a project. Obviously, it isn’t good for anyone when something happens like that.
\n As a person, you do what you can to make good, and as a professional you also
\n work to do the right thing. I think we did that.<\/p>\n
\n detail about me being a bad person from someone close to the client in the above
\n mentioned saga. At first I was personally insulted, then I was really pissed
\n off… then I thought about it some more and decided that neither of those reactions
\n is really helpful.<\/p>\n
\n All seems to be well. The topic was interesting though so I thought it worth
\n a mention here…<\/p>\n
\n and automobile mechanics. I am not surprised. In fact, I have been aware of
\n it as have most of my colleagues for all the time I have been in the development
\n game. For the purposes of this discussion "consultant" and "programmer"
\n are usually interchangeable<\/b>, they will generically refer to that guy with
\n the pony tail you usually pay to make the lights blink.<\/p>\n\n
\n or impossible<\/li>\n
\n understood what and why, and to avoid the common syndrome of having to say "We
\n have to throw all this out and start over". I can often clean up the problems
\n left behind by another consultant or by the client themselves if they have tried
\n to put it all together without really knowing what’s going on – and I don’t
\n blame clients for trying. I have an outstanding professional reputation with
\n all but one of my clients.<\/p>\n
\n are not completely finished. That’s fine by me, part of what I get paid for
\n is helping the client finish up their thought process… but it means there
\n are loose ends and unknowns involved. That can breed trouble if everyone isn’t
\n prepared for it.<\/p>\n
\n not to do it). The end user was a Pizza place. They wanted some software to
\n help them manage their drivers and deliveries. They had 30 features or so…
\n and buried in there was something that seemed so simply to them…<\/p>\n
\n current sales and specials<\/i>"<\/p>\n
\n be hard. That is, until those last 5 words. When I started sketching it out
\n in pseudo-code though to give them an estimate… here were some issues:<\/p>\n\n
\n run<\/li>\n
\n order (the specials are not just "10% off" but rather the "by
\n any three items with two toppings and get a free soda if you also order a
\n kids meal" type)<\/li>\n
\n competitors coupons<\/li>\n
\n with the cash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n the game. It is an obvious feature of course and a good idea – but added another
\n 40% to the cost and from experience I can tell you it would not have been perceived
\n as the massive change it really was. It could have been worse – often a feature
\n like that is put in after a contract has already been signed… and all too
\n often then the client wants to try and stick with the original estimate.<\/p>\n
\n can sometimes have incredibly large effects.<\/b><\/p>\n
\n they should and people get angry and frustrated. When all is said and done there
\n are only a few options when you are pissed at your consultant:<\/p>\n\n
\n thing he can revise his estimates or suggest another course of action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n I guess the person who called me thinks I am the first one and that’s really
\n too bad. <\/p>\n
\n happy. You know what is right and wrong, and you know what happened better than
\n anyone else. Decide on what you think is a fair remedy and do it. When you have
\n done that don’t continue to be pressured and forced and pushed.<\/p>\n
\n willing to take appropriate<\/i><\/b> responsibility when I was wrong and
\n make the amends that are needed to try and make it right. What I won’t do is
\n be held arbitrarily responsible for things I have already paid dues for indefinitely.<\/p>\n
\n in this blog. It is part of living your life on the web that people will react
\n to what you put out there – people who are actually involved with the events
\n mentioned. I suppose one response would be to lie or edit this log to make sure
\n no one finds out anything about my life – but that would be pointless. <\/p>\n
\n thoughts and feelings. The consequences will come as they will… but I refuse
\n to be afraid of them. There are a lot of interesting things that happen when
\n you have a website\/weblog (at least they happen to me).<\/p>\n\n
\n and who you think is hot and where you have been surfing and you get the idea.<\/li>\n
\n in a interesting form – I can keep everyone informed and they can decide how
\n much of what they know they wish to react to\/discuss with me in person. There
\n might be bad things like:<\/p>\n\n
\n much about each other. The girl in the next cubicle doesn’t<\/i> know that
\n you like Hentai rape porn, for example. It makes it a little tougher when the
\n people who are around you do know this sort of thing. But there are really good
\n things as well:<\/p>\n\n
\n employer may well like what he sees of your ethics<\/li>\n
\n evolving portfolio<\/li>\n
\n wish<\/a>!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n don’t have any desire to hide my life even if it would be possible given my
\n goals. I don’t intent to push it in anyone’s face either. I put it here, on
\n my site. You know me for a short time you will probably hear my URL. You can
\n go or not go. Read a little or read all about me. Never come back of come check
\n in every day. Use it against me or use it to get closer to me, but remember
\n – I am using it too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\n is my reality and I have my own reasons for putting it up here. <\/p>\n