These manifest themselves as HTTP 404s for all requests on your website.

In order to enable the 4.0 bindings to IIS, it will be necessary to run the following commands:

(assuming this is the location installed on your local machine)

(to register the new version of the framework).

And then add .net 4.0 to the permitted list in the IIS extentions.

You can use this command to view a list of the available extensions:

If you still run into any problems after this. Create a new app pool to run 4.0 applications, and modify the website accordingly, followed by IIS reset should resolve the issues. (Repeat if necessary)

The Sales team, well that isn’t good enough for them… Let’s say you’re selling someone a wedding dress and they need to know it will be ready for their Wedding day. There’s no use telling them its going to be late, once we’ve agreed to do it!

Is software like a wedding dress? Some of our clients are making huge leaps of faith that everything will be all ready for a fixed date so it all coincides with a public event, marketing campaign launch (magazines, newspaper and other media), and sometimes an entire company launch.

Maybe it is like a wedding dress? But who cares huh? Who wants to be the poor sap that tells the bride that she has to move her wedding day because her dress is late or worse still, tell her on the actual day of her wedding she’d better find something else to wear.

How can we become better at making our client happy on their “big day”? And do we always understand the significance (motives) of a piece of work for the client before we begin?

The sales team are selling “Wedding dresses”, while the development team are saying its not possible to give an extact date of delivery because estimation is flawed.

Also read The Estimation Fallacy. This article details the many pitfalls of estimation and software development.