> Your experience in the real world must be very limited

Clearly.

> as it is often the
> case where a customer starts off with a "simple" requirement then keeps
> expanding it as time goes by as he dreams up more things that the system
> should do for him. If at day #1 you say "these reqirements are very simple,
> therefore require nothing more than a cheap and chearful solution which can
> be thrown together in a few minutes" you end up with a system that is not
> designed to be expanded. As soon as the first enhancement request comes in
> you will find yourself on the tail of a snake.

Alternatively you make a solution that fulfils the requirements of the
customer, without being "cheap and cheerful" and is designed well to
accomodate future modifications, and make it resolutely clear that any
future modification may take longer since schema changes may be required.

--
Richard Heyes

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