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Managing Creative Customers to Prevent Spontaneous Project Combustion

Individuals naturally remember conversations differently based on their unique perspectives. When no visual documentation exists, clients often struggle to identify and communicate their wants and needs. A prototype provides a visual representation of a contract. When a specification change is missing from the prototype, it is also missing from the contractual agreement. Changes are tracked in project notes and mindmaps and brought to life in prototypes. Client creativity should be nurtured and encouraged. When a client is brainstorming ideas, write them down. Subsequent project versions can include updates when a client's ideas conflict with a current project. Active listening prompts the client to feel secure and confident in his financial decisions with your company.  It's critical to initially write your contract to contain predetermined milestones that allow the client to provide feedback at appropriate times. A quote reassessment, an updated prototype, and a new mindmap d...

Logical Relationships: Truth Tables Bake the Cake

Logical Relationships: Truth Tables Bake the Cake While truth tables might not obnoxiously materialize in the middle of the freeway as one drives to work, the world around us exists in an observable form easily described with truth tables. Every transformative scientist explores logical relationships in the development of any new idea. Our minds naturally compile information through conditional statements. In Discrete Mathematics at Maryville University, Dr. Dushanthi Herath (2022) explores logic as the conduit for discovering the validity of propositions: “ Propositions are statements that can be either true or false but not both. In other words, propositional logic invents the rationality of the claims” (para. 1). Her presentation of propositions of logic demonstrates the relationship of negation, conjunction, disjunction, exclusive, conditional, biconditional, inverse, converse, and contrapositive statements and prepares active minds to explore complex combinations that set a found...