Have you ever had one of those days where you sat down at your computer, reviewing the “latest” requirements specification only to find out that something that was supposed to be finished now has major rework?
Well that was my day today.
The original requirement was just to have some contacts added from different departments to an application for the purposes of correspondence via automated email/tasks etc. It now turns out that they need to authenticate on our internal network so they can enter data - but they aren't on our network. So now I have to write an authentication system - which means a new database (roles, accounts, memberships), new webservices for authentication and administration and web front-ends to these tools complete with role enforcement.
Man, I just wanted to add some contacts into a database.