I see an organizational failure here. If management were paying attention and had processes set up from the beginning: - The output of the meeting with the cli

I see an organizational failure here. If management were paying attention and had processes set up from the beginning: - The output of the meeting with the clients' ops team would not just decide that Python was the right language, but communicate that to the director of engineering immediately. The question would not need to be raised again. - The spec ambiguity would be captured in a written bug, the bug would be resolved with "talked to tech rep, received this guidance". - A final critical review meeting should be about how well the program works, how well the documentation is written, what last-minute changes the client is asking for that are delivery requirements and which ones can be handled in a subsequent release. I blame management, the whole way.