“It therefore falls upon our shoulders to validate the approach suggested by the client before we possibly waste both their time and money developing it.” I ag

“It therefore falls upon our shoulders to validate the approach suggested by the client before we possibly waste both their time and money developing it.” I agree with this statement, but who pays for this analysis of the customer’s analysis? Customers expect to pay a developer for their time actually writing the code for the solution. Within most companies, developers are expected to build according to the specs from the domain experts and not argue about the specs or rehash the approach requested.