Tell you though (and this time this is from being the client as opposed to managing a project for a client), no matter what, one can get bit in the ass.
Content God 3.0 should be out in one to two weeks. This is the third programmer I had on this. That is why there had been no new major versions in about 14 months. Last year I had a guy work on it for six months and produce ... NOTHING!
He had the best damned time-table, as Sare and Rox have mentioned, I have ever seen. My expectations were incredible. This guy knocked my socks off at Day One. He broke the project down in three sections. Each section went by "element", then broke each element down to manhours (like 1.8 man hours, very specfic). Added things up, said he could spent 14 man hours a week, gave a dated time table for each section. He has 68 seperate elements ... Guaranteed he would be finished within six weeks. Milepost points with delivery dates in between. The whole nine years. In real time he was taking off for two weeks, so by the calender, two months for delivery, chronicled down to the minute.
He began in May, then .... this happened, that happened, he had a new boss at his day job who was more of a hard-ass, his two weeks off for his wedding and a honeymoon, the preparation for the wedding took longer, he comes back and his bride doesn't like him spending his off the brick-and-mortar job on programming and ignoring her ... yadda yadda yadda. He was so precise he had zero fudge factor (and zero understanding of getting married too, apparently.) He worked on it (remember two months, right?) from May to October I ended up with ... SQUAT!
So much for the great time-table and amazing projection analysis does when it isn't ever kept.
Again, I do see both sides, but that was my worse "burn" so I had to rant about it a little.
Last edited by Dravyk at May 25 2004, 02:55 PM