Ryan Walker on agile business and web software development
A few months ago I was asked to provide a bid to redo the “forum” area of a software company’s website (an old client of mine). The current forum system is 5-year-old custom ASP, rigid, and feature poor.
I put together a barebones quote to redo the forum using Beast as the foundation. I followed up a few times, no news, no big deal, I moved on.
Found out today that when they were discussing the proposal, the CEO found out that the forum software was “Beast” and he “couldn’t possibly” have it be known that they were using software with such a name. Needless to say, the company isn’t the most progressive out there :)
And that’s how I lost that bid. Beast is brave and I’m sure that more people choose Beast for it’s name than reject it. I wouldn’t have the product named anything else; Beast is a great name.
SWSWSWN (Some will, some won’t, so what, next!)
