The "Just in Case" Checkbox: How Vague Requirements Kill ERP Budgets
The most expensive words in NetSuite consulting aren’t “We need this.” They’re: “We might need a checkbox for this... just in case.”
I audited a Project Management and CRM module for an aviation company that had turned into a complete disaster. It was plagued by endless back-and-forth revision loops, blown budgets, and a bloated system that the end users absolutely hated.
The code wasn’t the problem. The developer was.
The developer accepted a vague requirement and said, “Sure, I can build that,” billing hourly while gambling in JavaScript. They should have interrogated the business logic until the real problem surfaced.
Junior developers say yes and bill the hours. Architects say no. If you’re writing code before the exact scope, business impact, and workflow are confirmed in writing, you’re not engineering. Clear requirements aren’t the client’s responsibility to provide. They’re the Architect's job to extract.
Are you paying developers to guess your business logic?
Bring in an Architect to extract the requirements and build it right the first time.
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