[thelist] Client Sign-off On Site Completion

[Martin]

Rachell Coe wrote on 30/8/01 10:03 pm

>How many of you have your clients sign off on a site when it is complete?

Absolutely - following UAT, which is the process by which the client
checks that what you delivered is what they wanted.

No signoff, no acceptance that you fulfilled the contract, no guarantee
of getting paid.

More UAT info:
http://evolt.org/testing/#uat

>If you do, do you have them sign a formal finalizing contract?  

A formal signoff of UAT.

>Or just a
>reiteration of the original estimate appropriately updated to reflect any
>deviations?

They'd get ongoing estimates of spend throughout the project, based
on time & materials, or whatever the basis of contract was.

Deviations shouldn't be news to the client at this point - they should
have already signed up to any cost or date overruns. The key thing is
to make sure that what you delivered is what they asked for.

Cheers
Martin

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