your company quickly. For example, don’t
let your phones get cut off, make timely
tax payments and don’t issue bouncing paychecks. And understand that
executives you serve have had to “triage”
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with one of their few key requirements
and they’ll keep coming to you for more
help.
A closely related point:
10. Don’t assume the clients
really know what they want. Even if
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what you were to deliver was specified
in excruciating detail, you can’t assume
they’ll love it when they see it. You
have to deliver partial answers (prototypes, preliminary analyses, simplified
models) early and often, and engage
the client throughout the process in
refining the statement of objectives.
Deliver multiple prototypes and let the
client choose which to pursue further
– you keep the client committed to the
development process, and you elicit
what their real priorities are.
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