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iry · 03-08-2007, 11:00 AM

Hi, I’m not so sure why I always run into communication problems and please help me to deal with this situation. I engaged a project with a part time freelance programmer. After 3 months of progress, the project is about 70% completed.

Long story short, here is an email that I received from him about the project progress this evening.

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I am not bothered to give you anymore consultation as
my advice seem to fall on deaf ears ( one example I think would be he prefer error validation message appear in pop up while I don’t as I prefer messages appear consistency on the web page. I am quite concern about the user experience in the portal) , besides you seem
very well knowledgeable
development ( I think he is teasing me about as I’ve about 1 year experience in portal development while he has about more than 5 years). Furthermore your client seems very well
knowledgeable in software flow as well. I'm just
clearing the excell issues.

whether we meet tommorrow let me check if i have
nothing better to do first ( o ya.. as if I’ll always available).

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There are some issue that I request for his advice and he replied with “You can think abt it and let me know later.“.

How should I deal with him if he appears anti “me”? Should I prompt him to clear our doubts? Or should I just let it be? I think he is a nice guy but dealing with me doesn’t make him pleasant. One reason that I could think of is because in the initial state, we try to rush off the project, so without any screen design, we start off to develop the project and consequently that’s lot of changes being made. It’s a wrong start, but how I can really fix the problem? I would really hope to get your advice.

03-08-2007, 11:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
iry Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 45	How Should I Deal With This Person? Hi, I’m not so sure why I always run into communication problems and please help me to deal with this situation. I engaged a project with a part time freelance programmer. After 3 months of progress, the project is about 70% completed. Long story short, here is an email that I received from him about the project progress this evening. ------------------------------------------------------ I am not bothered to give you anymore consultation as my advice seem to fall on deaf ears ( one example I think would be he prefer error validation message appear in pop up while I don’t as I prefer messages appear consistency on the web page. I am quite concern about the user experience in the portal) , besides you seem very well knowledgeable development ( I think he is teasing me about as I’ve about 1 year experience in portal development while he has about more than 5 years). Furthermore your client seems very well knowledgeable in software flow as well. I'm just clearing the excell issues. whether we meet tommorrow let me check if i have nothing better to do first ( o ya.. as if I’ll always available). ------------------------------------------------------ There are some issue that I request for his advice and he replied with “You can think abt it and let me know later.“. How should I deal with him if he appears anti “me”? Should I prompt him to clear our doubts? Or should I just let it be? I think he is a nice guy but dealing with me doesn’t make him pleasant. One reason that I could think of is because in the initial state, we try to rush off the project, so without any screen design, we start off to develop the project and consequently that’s lot of changes being made. It’s a wrong start, but how I can really fix the problem? I would really hope to get your advice.