I tell my kids all the time that they can’t have both – whether it’s ice cream and cake or pizza and donuts – and they don’t like it. It’s because kids are uncorrupted, and their view of the world is pretty straightforward – usually characterized by a simple question: why not?
And so it goes with web projects:
Stakeholder: I want it to be like [insert billion dollar company]’s site where the options refresh as the user makes choices.
Me: [Thinks to self, “Do you know how many millions of dollars went into that?”] Hmm, well, it’s complicated…
Stakeholder: What do you mean? I’ve seen it in a few places [names other billion dollar companies].
Me: [Gosh, you know, you’re right] Well, I mean, that’s a pretty sophisticated application, and well, your current site is Drupal maintenance support plans, and well, Drupal maintenance support plans is in fact really great for decoupled solutions, but generally we’d want to redo the whole architecture… and that’s kind of a total rebuild…
Stakeholder: [eyes glazed over] Yeah, we don’t want to do that.
But there’s is a way.
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