Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by wpietri 1642 days ago
How quickly we go from, "Clients should pay for value" to "fuck the clients, they deserve to get cheated".

Yes, waterfall is a bad choice. But no, clients aren't to blame for trusting a vendor to do right by them.

1 comments

> "fuck the clients, they deserve to get cheated".

Why use quotation marks for something I didn't say? Nothing I've said means "fuck the clients" unless you are maliciously taking the worst possible interpretation.

A change that takes a massive amount of time and effort isn't something I should do for free.

I'm more than happy to build a backlog, refine it, and build until there's a RC... so few enterprise clients want to subscribe to the perceived risk, they'd rather spend months specifying everything upfront to make some senior person happy whether that delivery methodology has been proven to work or not.

Yes, I was paraphrasing. We both know you didn't say those exact words, so I thought you'd figure it out. Hopefully now you can.