jason white

Let me add some context before I begin. Recently developing a site on a shoestring budget, I built the prototype proof of concept which was not really built from a solid specification more add-hoc per specification. Quickly the time came for the Directors to seek investment to fund future growth, i assume emails went to and throw between director and investor ideas a plenty; you can imagine one person saying “this” and another person saying “that”. To cut a long bit and make it shorter, the prototype site become the live site and more things than i can count on both hands and feet needed updating and changing.  like yesterday!

With no time to plan and without question i set about making the ideas real, some things simply wouldn’t work with other things and so had to be twisted and pushed. Many other things worked just fine. of course this way of working isn’t easy, without the planning it didn’t take long for us to realise we had introduced bugs, areas that worked fine before no longer functioned as they should. each change had a knock on effect.

I would love for this to be a story of morality, a tale of woe that by seeing the error of our ways we went forward into the light and for ever and day all was good. it’s not. I simply wanted to share a moment. I will not plan like the plan is everything if the client does not have the funds to support such antics. It may not be good for the client to go to the investor with only a plan, the plan alone will probably get them nowhere. For a plan on its own is just an idea and ideas are everywhere. Everyone has one, even me.

The client needs a prototype “a beta” if you will, with a prototype they have proof of concept and users too. They have what is needed now to acquire funding, maybe for a plan. Be it bank or brother someone will get excited and hold out a hand.

Bottom line given the choice if the client has limited funds go for the build, build like you have never built before, yes things will break and things will go wrong but they can be fixed and put right. Right now the client needs funding and you know what to do! when the funds are in you can plan because the client can afford you to, and plan well. its going to be fun and you will be proud.

Thanks