Re: Mission Creep

On or about Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 12:46:06PM +0200,
KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de typed:

>From my experience (not in defence, but it can hardly be different
>there), unless you have written everything down to the last nail in the
>contract, it's very easy to get into disputes of the kind: 'We can't
>use it without X. X is obviously covered by original requirements' (to
>be paid by the contractor) 'No, X was not specified. It is a change
>request' (to be paid by the buyer).

<bitter laughter>

That's when the buyer doesn't say "oh, we've got what we wanted, now
we're not going to pay you and watch you go bankrupt"...