This weeks meeting went fairly badly, as the clients derailed the meeting for around 30 minutes of extra time. We've come to the conclusion that we're going to need to adopt a much less organic process and act more like a software company than merely employees working on a project. This is mainly due to the fact that many software firms by now would have told them that there are certain limitations that will not be crossed, and that's that.
The main concern is that the clients do not have a notion that back-end work must be done to support the front end of the website. Also, they want to be involved in every aspect, including decision making about how we will code the site (even coding styles), as well as how we will test (they want to tell us what they think the best testing method will be). We've tried to be as open as possible, but it just is not working, and hence we have to put up a wall and draw the line.
So, our plan for this week is to create the HTA Task Analysis for the features we are delivering with this prototype and finish it up for testing next week. Following, we will be planning on having a final elicitation sit down to get exactly what they want to be editable, what we agree is easy to do and what is not, and then setting the record straight once and for all there.
From there, we hope to be able to finish up this milestone for the end of the quarter, getting all of the features we listed accomplished and marked out.
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