As a consultant you are sometimes thrown into difficult situations. How do you deal with clients who have no processes, have no methodology and ask for things to be done for yesterday even though they do not fully know what they want? How can such a situation be identified before you get committed to a project? ...
What was the vaguest, most contradictory, physically impossible, or sheer gibberish specification you have ever received from a client? And more interestingly, how did you handle it? ...
I won the bid on a project and now the client (who is itself from IT Department) wants me to architect/implement the solution in a very particular way. I am sure the application will fail that way for performance problems. And it will not be easily scalable. This particular client/user does not know ANYTHING about the platform and langu...
Has anybody had a bad or very bad experience or stories with Scrum or Sprinting, that you can share with a n00b so that he doesn't make the same mistake? If you had a problem, what were your lessons learned? What would you do differently or have done differently, to avoid the problem again? ...
I've heard repeatedly that XCode's integration with SVN is lacking, but seeing as I have personally never used it, I cannot help but wonder why. Now I'm starting a new project, and once again SCM has come up. This time though, I think I want a better idea of what exactly XCode does and doesn't do right with SVN. So, have any horror sto...