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Consultant pilot fish gets the order to build an online store for one of the company's major clients. "I'm told to use an off-the-shelf e-commerce system to save time," he says. "When I ask for the specifications, I'm told it's a basic shopping cart, nothing special.
"This worries me, but foolishly I move forward."
After scoping out the project, fish reports to his manager that he can get the off-the-shelf system ready for customer review by a particular date.
Shortly after that, fish learns that the sales rep has promised the entire site by that date, including migrating all data.
And fish still has no specifications or feature list, nor has he been told what data he needs to migrate.